The year is 1966. The Beach Boys are the biggest rock and roll band in America at the height of their popularity racking up a string of top 20 hits rivaled only by their contemporaries from across the pond, The Beatles.

Brian Wilson is the creative visionary behind the band's most memorable records and is looking to take the music in a more sophisticated direction. In an effort to compete with the sounds coming from the British Invasion, Brian sets out to move beyond the band's sunny surfer image to produce an album unlike anything heard before in modern popular music.