Rachel Weisz stars in the true story of Kathy Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer and mother of three who takes a job as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia.
In 2001, she comes across a widespread sex trafficking ring. Working as a human rights investigator in charge of the gender affairs unit, she tries to expose the ring but is frustrated by the resistance of powerful officials. Risking her life, she traces the ring up the ladder to corrupt figures at her company, a private U.S. military contractor, as well as at the United Nations and the U.S. State Department.
Winner of four awards, the film is based on Bolkovac's 2011 book, "The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice." The film and the book both illustrate the risk we take when we hire mercenaries to do jobs that our military normally handles.
The 2010 Canadian-German co-production, filmed mostly in Romania, co-stars David Stathairn, Monica Belluci and Vanessa Redgrave.
R, 112 minutes. Extra: a featurette with the real Kathy Bolkovac. From Fox. Released Jan. 24.