The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

 near future , the United Kingdom to become a totalitarian political state , London, completely is dictator Sattler ( John Hurt ) , ban Yan land . Fascist ZF evil words and deeds of all are control , where homosexuals have all been arrested and even killed at random , although the public outrage in Japan , no one dared to put their lives at Risk . One night, the beautiful and gentle girl Avril as a television assistant ( Natalie Portman ) on his way home , was surrounded by group of corrupt secret police in an attempt to rape . Fortunately, wearing a mask cloaked in the mysterious person ( Hugo Balakrishnan ) in a timely manner , rescued the frightened Avril , however , the mysterious person did not give his name , Avril only know that the mysterious person alias " V ". However temporary safe Avril failed to survive , love to be the secret police , she was imprisoned . Suffered all sorts of torture in prison , she vowed to continue to live in order to revenge ! And again, V be timely, to save Avril . Avril began to realize that V relying on their natural leaders like charisma , superb and fierce fighting skills and intelligence , self- organized to punish evil and anti-espionage group . V is fully aware that the disciplinary commit crimes of corrupt police alone can not solve the problem , he was determined to ignite a revolution against of ZF tyranny and oppression . In training to become assistant Avril 's help , the V - word vendetta team violence and to bring freedom and justice for the society filled with terror and corruption .