Plot Synopsis:
In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska, played by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, and her husband successfully run the Warsaw Zoo and raise their family in an idyllic existence. Their world is overturned, however, when the country is invaded by the Nazis and they are forced to report to the Reichs newly appointed zoologist, played by Daniel Brühl. To fight back on their own terms, the Zabinskis risk everything by covertly working with the Resistance and using the zoos hidden tunnels and cages to save families from Nazi brutality.