The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad agents Rachel (played by Academy Award winner Helen Mirren) and Stephan (two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds of the upcoming TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY). All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-66, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. While Rachel found herself grappling with romantic feelings during the mission, the net around Vogel was tightened by using her as bait. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or, was it?