Directed by Stephen Frears (The Grifters, Dangerous Liasons, High Fidelity) for British television, this moving and emotionally complex wartime drama is set in the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975. Academy award-winning actress Dame Judi Dench portrays Barbara Dean, a loan officer at a British bank in Saigon. She meets and falls in love with a CIA Operative (Frederic Forrest) who is trying to convince his superiors of the imminent invasion by the Vietcong.