A magazine assistant survives a fashion editor who never raises her voice.
A nun is certain about a priest and has no proof; the film refuses to settle it either.
The Washington Post decides whether to print the Pentagon Papers, with Streep as the publisher who says yes.
Margaret Thatcher in old age, remembering the rise; Streep won her third Oscar for it.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
Virginia Woolf, a 1950s housewife and a New York editor, in one day each, across three eras.
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