Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the de facto leader of the Free world, told for the first time for an international audience.

Adam Curtis explica como, en los confusos tiempos que corren, nos retraemos hacia una tóxica versión sobresimplificada de lo que verdaderamente ocurre.