On October 6, 1973, during the month of Ramadan and under cover of darkness on Israel's holiest day, the armed forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan launched a surprise military attack in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
Severely outnumbered on the ground and militarily outmatched, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir faced her greatest challenge: defusing the threat of a ticking time bomb ready to explode at any moment.
Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the internal strife within her all-male government, she was a lone woman leading a desperate race against time to save millions of lives on both sides of the conflict.
