خلاصه داستان : قتل علنی یک سیاستمدار و پزشک برجسته در میان تظاهرات خشونت آمیز توسط مقامات نظامی و دولتی سرپوش گذاشته می شود. یک قاضی سرسخت مصمم است که به آنها اجازه ندهد از این موضوع فرار کنند.

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.