A Call to Spy
At the beginning of World War II, with Britain desperately in need of a strategic advantage, Winston Churchill orders the creation of a new spy agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), with a mission to recruit and train female spies to be parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Vera Atkins, an ambitious Romanian immigrant and the SOE's recruiter, enlists two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg deemed undesirable by the mainstream establishment, and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist British Muslim radio operator. Despite their disparate backgrounds and the immense risks, these women overcome sexism and adversity to become critical figures in the French Resistance, risking their lives behind enemy lines to transmit vital intelligence and disrupt German operations, profoundly impacting the course of the war. Their perilous missions highlight their courage, sacrifice, and the crucial, often unacknowledged, role of female spies.