In order to escape from the civil war Matangi „Maya“ Arulpragasam alias M.I.A. went with her mother and her sister from Sri Lanka to London when she was nine years old. There she concentrated on music and developed a culture clash aesthetic, which was influenced by street art, hip-hop and different cultures of migration. The mixture of various styles is also a part of the profile from M.I.A. like her activist political codes, which are controversial for society. Born as a child from the founder of the Tamil movement of independence in Sri Lanka, her ego ever stands in causality to her art. Experiences of civil war and migration but also the military regime affect her artistic and political standing until today. Her solidarity for the Tamil partisans and her self-concept as a „bad girl“ are hard criticized by the mainstream media, in politics, and from the conservative society. Not everybody knows that M.I.A. wanted to be a filmmaker before she concentrated on music and became a world star. As the only person of color in her age group of the Saint Martins College of Art in London, she came back to Sri Lanka and filmed her family with a camcorder. A Long time after her advancement she contacted her old study college Stephen Loveridge and gave him the old video material and additional material from the past for the production of this film. Using archive material from the last 22 years, most of which was shot by Maya herself, Steve Loveridge reveals how Maya uses pop music as a political mouthpiece and does not shy away from being an outsider.