The series tells the remarkable story of how three young men, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, united in the fight for a free internet and founded the download site The Pirate Bay. Their idea of free access to information, music, books and movies would fundamentally change the internet.

On election night 2010, two young Sweden Democrats — the charming but unserious Ville and his cousin Tobias — are given the task of hanging a huge Swedish flag in Rinkeby square, but end up drawn into a chaotic night full of crazy encounters with drug dealers, activists, and Finnish bikers.