Winning the Silver Trophy in the 1958 Football World Cup was one of Sweden’s greatest sports achievements ever. This film is about the people who were there, but most of all about the people who – despite eyewitnesses and evidence from film footage – claim that the 1958 World Cup never took place in Sweden. They say it was all a big hoax, staged by the American secret service for the purpose of testing television’s influence on people. “Conspiracy 58” raises important questions at a rapid pace and forces viewers to ask themselves whether television always presents a truthful and objective picture of events.