"Eco-Pirate" tells the story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows a professional radical environmentalist, Captain Paul Watson, who repeatedly breaks the law so that he can apprehend what he considers to be the most serious lawbreakers: the world's illegal poachers. Using Verité footage taken aboard his ship as a framing device, the documentary examines Watson's personal history as an activist through archival footage and interviews, while revealing the impact of this relentless search on his personal life. From the genesis of Greenpeace to the sinking of a pirate whaling ship off Portugal, and from clashes with fishermen in the Galapagos to Watson's recent battles with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, the film chronicles the extraordinary life of the most controversial figure in Antarctica. environmental movement; the heroic, the ego, the urgency of the world's original eco-pirate.