After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for among a swashbuckling rover, Stede Bonnet comes to be captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to gain the respect of his possibly mutinous staff, Stede's lot of money adjustment after a fateful altercation with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and also crew effort to get their ship together as well as endure life on the high seas.