The action of the film “A Complete Unknown” takes place on the influential New York music scene of the early 1960s. He tells about the rapid rise of the 19-year-old musician from Minnesota, Bob Dylan, as a popular singer, in concert halls and at the top of the charts – songs and his mystery. became a world sensation, the culmination of which was his revolutionary performance in the style of electric rock and roll at the folk festival in Newport in 1965.