A US congressman gets embroiled in a secret mission to provide covert military support to rebels in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Before long, he finds unlikely allies in the shape of a womanising CIA agent, a Texan socialite and the president of Pakistan. Fact-based political drama set during the 1980s, starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.