The Exception

“One duty. One desire. One decision.”

Captain Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney), a German officer, is sent to the secluded Dutch mansion where the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer) lives, to find out whether a British spy has slipped into the household. David Leveaux sets the investigation in occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. Among the staff is Mieke (Lily James), a maid and a Jewish woman, and the two begin a dangerous affair.