The trailer shows some awesome acting by Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. The story seems like a typical fabricated Hollywood story, but it’s based on actual incidents that occurred at the brink of Iraq war.

As a covert officer in the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, Valerie Plame leads an investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Valerie’s husband, diplomat Joe Wilson, is drawn into the investigation to substantiate an alleged sale of enriched uranium from Niger. But when the administration ignores his findings and uses the issue to support the call to war, Joe writes a New York Times editorial outlining his conclusions and ignites a firestorm of controversy.