Porn king fights in courts for freedom of speech, i.e. print 'dirty' pictures.
In 1978 Flynt was shot by someone who was never found, and left paralyzed from the waist down. For some time he is dependent on drugs to stop the pain until he has an operation. There is no one in this film with whom you can naturally empathise . These people publishing porn are not very nice. But our interest is sustained because with Flynt what you see is what you get.