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.
A magazine assistant survives a fashion editor who never raises her voice.
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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