Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s,UNDERGROUNDfollows a teenage Julian Assange and his gang of friends - the International Subversives - as they try to break into the computer systems of the world's most powerful organizations. Hoping to uncover the inner workings of these groups, the boys wage battle from their bedrooms with the technologies, with each other, and with the AFP Detective who is charged with the tracking and shutting down their group.