When Jane's Addiction released their exceptional 1990 breakthrough album, Ritual De Lo Habitual, their record company, Warner Bros., gave the band the expected funding to film several promotional videos for MTV. Instead, singer Perry Farrell and then-girlfriend Casey Niccoli wrote and directed a low-budget video-movie, Gift. It wasn't issued until a few years after the band's demise (1993) and focuses primarily around Farrell and Niccoli. The 80 min. story line takes place during the recording of Ritual, as Farrell returns from a recording session to discover that his girlfriend is dead from a lethal dose of heroin, so most of the script is in flashback mode.

Music included are in-concert versions of "Stop!" and "Ain't No Right," as well as an intriguing clip for Ritual's closing ballad, "Classic Girl," in which Farrell and Niccoli get married, and a tension-filled cover of Sly Stone's "Don't Call Me N******, Whitey," performed by Jane's Addiction and Ice T's Body Count.