Rupert Murdoch's media empire is the subject here, as the phone hacking scandal that brought down the News of the World and shook British politics crosses the Atlantic. The film tracks how revelations that journalists hacked the voicemails of celebrities, politicians, and crime victims led to arrests, resignations, and the closure of a 168-year-old newspaper, then follows investigators and lawmakers as they turn their attention to News Corp's American operations. Interviews and news footage retrace the Metropolitan Police inquiries, the parliamentary hearings where Murdoch and his son James faced questioning, and the fallout for executives like Rebekah Brooks. The question driving the film is whether the culture that produced the UK scandal reaches into News Corp's US newsrooms and boardrooms, and what that would mean for a company built on Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. It is a compact account of a media empire under legal and political pressure on two continents.