Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren delivers a brilliant performance. On October 6, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan launch a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Golda Meir, Israel's only female prime minister, faces the immediate, clear and present danger of Israel's destruction. Surrounded, isolated and frustrated by the internal squabbles of her exclusively male cabinet, and with little hope of salvation, one woman finds herself in a race against time to save millions on both sides of the conflict.