The Honey Boy trailer is an intense look at the semiautobiographical tale of Shia LaBeouf’s own acting career, starring Shia LaBeouf himself.

Shia LaBeouf’s Disney days are long behind him, though you wouldn’t have needed this trailer to know that.

The actor, who had an incredibly successful career on TV and film starting from a young age, has had a tumultuous — to say the least — off-screen presence in the past few years.

That’s quieted more recently, and a court-ordered turn in rehab has led the former child actor to new creative heights with the upcoming film Honey Boy.

Written while LaBeouf was being treated for substance abuse, Honey Boy is an autobiographic film that focuses on the relationship between LaBeouf and his abusive, alcoholic father during his rise to stardom as a child and his problems during his acting career as an adult.

Check out the trailer and the official synopsis of Honey Boy below.

From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach, LoveTrue) brings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Fictionalizing his ascent to stardom, and subsequent crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased, Manchester by the Sea) as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Dancer-singer FKA twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har’el’s feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as medicine and imagination as hope through the life and times of a talented, traumatized performer who dares to go in search of himself.

The film generated buzz at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and will screen at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival before being released in theaters on November 8.