Fact-based drama telling the story of Polish social worker Irena Sendler, who defied Nazi rule during the Second World War occupation. Posing as a nurse, she helped smuggle more than 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto to safety in other countries. Starring Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden and Nathaniel Park.

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.