After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.

Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child’s surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member’s plan to kidnap her young son from the boy’s wealthy grandfather.

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

German boarding school student Pauli hopes to lose his virginity while visiting his father in Italy.