Ramnicu Valcea sits quietly in central Romania, all pastel apartment blocks and quiet streets, until the film explains why locals nicknamed it Hackerville. Motherboard's crew walks the town talking to residents, police, and reformed scammers about the cottage industry that grew here: fake eBay listings, wired-money scams, and malware operations that have pulled millions of dollars out of victims' bank accounts worldwide. Cybercrime investigators describe the whack-a-mole problem of prosecuting hackers who move faster than Romanian law can track them, while young men in the town talk almost casually about the money to be made faking listings for cars and electronics that don't exist. The film links the scene's rise to the economic collapse that followed the fall of Communism, when computer skills became one of the few reliable paths out of poverty. Flashy cars and new houses paid for by scams sit next to older, poorer parts of town, and the contrast does most of the film's arguing for it.