Straight Outta Compton kertoo todellisen tarinan siitä, miten viisi nuorta kulttuurikapinallista - aseinaan vain sanoituksensa, rehvastelunsa, uhmakkuutensa ja lahjakkuutensa - nousi vastustamaan auktoriteetteja, joiden tarkoituksena oli vaimentaa heidät. Nuoret perustivat maailman vaarallisimman yhtyeen nimeltä N.W.A. kun he kertoivat turvattomasta elämästä ghetossa, he panivat alulle sosiaalisen vallankumouksen, jonka vaikutukset tuntuvat yhä tänäkin päivänä.

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.