Scoop delves, in thriller mode, behind the scenes of the disastrous interview given to the BBC in which the brother of Charles III discussed his links to Jeffrey Epstein. The Crown did not risk mentioning the legal troubles of Prince Andrew, implicated for his proximity to the financier Jeffrey Epstein and his prostitution network.

As is often the case in British cinema, it is about class struggle. A single mother from a proletarian family, Sam McAlister, whose memoirs inspired the project, does not have the codes of her fellow BBC journalists.