In 1969, Rupert Murdoch acquires the struggling British newspaper The Sun and recruits Larry Lamb, a Yorkshireman of working-class origins, as its editor, tasking him with reinventing the failing broadsheet as a populist tabloid capable of overtaking the dominant Daily Mirror. As Lamb trades sober news coverage for sensationalism, celebrity and scandal, the pair build a formula that would make The Sun Britain's bestselling newspaper, and presage many of the forces that later reshaped global media in the Murdoch model. An irreverent, breathlessly paced recap of Murdoch's tabloid revolution, carried by fiery lead performances even as its moral stance toward its subject remains deliberately, provocatively opaque.