Keira Knightley shines as a very British whistleblower
A spy drama based on the true story of Katharine Gun whose job involved routine handling of classified information for the British security services at GCHQ.
In 2003, she was astonished to receive an email making it plain that she was expected to find out incriminating personal details in the lives of UN representatives from small countries so that they could be blackmailed into voting for the war in Iraq.
Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun (played by Keira Knightley) decides to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that ignites an international firestorm, exposes a vast political conspiracy, and puts Gun and her family directly in harm's way.
