In summer 1953, some eighteen months after Churchill has become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time, he suffers a serious stroke. Though his illness is kept as secret as possible his political friends and foes begin to plot his successor when it is unclear whether he will recover or not. He is nursed back to health by Millie Appleyard.

• Churchills Secret
• Michael Gambon
• Romola Garai
• Lindsay Duncan
• Charles Sturridge