Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Ett år efter ett stort bombdåd i Köpenhamn, har radikaliseringen och spänningarna i samhället ökat markant. Det stundar val i Danmark och nationalisten Martin Nordahl ser ut att vinna stort. 19-åriga Zakaria blir involverad i en radikal organisation, där han hittar en like i Ali. De två männen är missnöjda med situationen i landet, och bestämmer sig för att agera, något som ska få stora konsekvenser i deras liv.

Bastien is twenty years old and has been an activist for five years in the main extreme right party. When the presidential campaign begins, he's invited by his superior to commit even further. Initiated into the art of decking himself out like a politician, he starts to dream of a career, but old demons surge forth...