The doc uses Frye's teenage diary to describe her experience with young love: In a very effective move, director Frye chooses to read various downright-poetic diary entries from her teen years in order to give a voice to her memories. The entries paint Soleil's romantic heart, calling Johnny Depp her "future husband" and drawing hearts around Mark Wahlberg's name, wondering what life would be like and who she would fall in love with when she was older. Throughout the doc, Soleil also recounts her relationship with "Jump Around" rapper Danny Boy O'Connor, who she later reconnects with in Tulsa, and talks about how he encouraged her to film everything before drifting out of her life due to drug use. Soleil connects her experience with an absent father with her "need to feel loved" and her attraction to extremes, also describing losing her virginity to an older actor and a skater she fell in love with during her time in New York.
The film has moments of deep darkness, relating to some of Soleil's friends' suicides: Throughout the doc, there are various mentions of depression and suicide, particularly focusing on Frye's close friend Jonathan Brandis' suicide at age 27. As Soleil finds a journal entry that says her and Jonathan will marry one day, one can see how important the seaQuest DSV star was to Frye, and to the world. With a mention of porn actress Shannon Wilsey shooting herself after crashing her Corvette, the film dives into the darkness of fame and its relation to depression and "the point of no return." As Frye looks back at the archival footage, she realises the friends that needed to be heard, but that she tragically just didn't see it at the time.
As Soleil puts it, the film depicts a "coming of age all over again as an adult": The documentary paints a difficult portrait of '90s child stars, but leaves room for hope, too. Soleil says, "life is beautiful, messy . . . it's complicated," and talks to Danny Boy O'Connor 20 years later about still finding serenity. As Frye finds self-love through making the film, making her wonder how many people are still going without it, she realises she loved other people, but was loved also.