It is the year 2003, before the Iraq War. Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) will risk everything to stop an unfair war. This British intelligence specialist whose job was the routine handling of classified information receives a compromising memorandum in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to wait and see the world rush into an illegal war, Gun makes the heartbreaking decision to challenge his government and filter the memo to the press. Crossed out as a traitor by her own government, Gun will star in an explosive chain of events that will expose a great political conspiracy and put Gun and his family directly in danger.
Movie based on real events directed by Gavin Hood (Spies from the sky) and that is the adaptation of the book written by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell. The film stars Keira Knightley (The Nutcracker and the Four Kingdoms), Adam Bakri (Slam), Matt Smith (The Crown), Indira Varma (Patrick Melrose), Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey), Rhys Ifans (Snowden) and Ralph Fiennes (The dancer (Nureyev, the white crow)).