This is a retelling of the terrible events which occurred over two days in 1972 when the entire Israeli team of athletes and coaches at the Munich summer Olympics was taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. A botched rescue attempt resulted in the deaths of 17 people – eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and one German police officer.

‘This movie does us a service in bringing this brave woman’s story to the attention of a new generation.  Due justice is done to the awful gravity of the events that prompted her most important work, but it’s a pity that so much time is wasted on awkward melodrama which at times swamps her personal story.

“Like so many children of Holocaust survivors, Lily Brett was haunted by her parent’s suffering, and by the ghosts of the family she would never know – the ones who had perished in the ghettoes or the death camps.   She was consumed by a desire to visit the places her parents had lived and to share and perhaps understand what they had endured.”