Following the Peabody Award-winning documentary MEA MAXIMA CULPA, his investigation into the Catholic Church, Alex Gibney dives fully into one of the most controversial and secretive religions in the world in GOING CLEAR, exploring what members of Scientology are willing to do in the name of religion. The film touches on a wide range of aspects of the church from it's origin, to an intimate portrait of the Church's founder L. Ron Hubbard, to it's recruiting practices, to present day practices by church officials.