North Country

“All she wanted was to make a living... Instead she made history.”

Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) takes a job in a Minnesota iron mine, where the pay is better than anything else she can find for a single mother. The men on the crew make it clear she is not welcome, and the abuse follows her from the pit to the locker room. Niki Caro keeps Josey at the center as she decides whether to keep quiet for the paycheck or stand up and name what is being done to her.