A historical political thriller set during Israel's War of Independence (1948), The General's Wife follows Ruth Peled, 28, the wife of a senior Haganah commander whose official role is entirely domestic and whose actual role is entirely not. Ruth runs a network of intelligence sources from her kitchen table — housewives, shopkeepers, telephone operators, domestic workers — who collectively constitute the most significant intelligence apparatus operating in the new state's first war. Her husband David knows and does not acknowledge knowing; the men above him are grateful for the intelligence while pretending not to ask where it comes from. The film follows one month of the war's most critical period, including the UN ceasefire negotiations that Ruth's network directly influenced, and the specific price of being the architect of something that history will record as someone else's achievement. The romance is the marriage itself — David and Ruth's relationship across the pressure of the war, which is the film's most carefully observed element.
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(Ruth's principal agent · Kitchen table intelligence)
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