When a hacker shifts a social media apps' control to any creator of its top-ranked video, rampant violence and privacy invasion ensues - as people everywhere chase the money, fame and power of being number one.

Contraband follows a self-styled citizen journalist forced to hunt down an activist sabotaging a ruthless entrepreneur's dark web social media app. His search leads him into a voyeur underground where profit-hungry youths prowl city streets secretly inciting, staging and filming violent events to satisfy society's demand for sensational content...