Abigail Dalton becomes prime minister after a personal prompt from her husband and immediately confronts a cancer drug supply crisis. She travels to negotiate with French president Vivienne Toussaint for lifesaving medicine in exchange for admitting Ebola-affected refugees. Her husband, Dr Alex Anderson, and his medical team are abducted in French Guiana, and terrorists demand Dalton's resignation by 1pm the next day as ransom. Family members including a conflicted daughter and a dying father press for her to resign and bring her husband home. Key staff and international players complicate urgent decision-making amid personal and political stakes.
You know how it is. One moment you're on a romantic walk in the woods with your saintly, supportive husband as he convinces you to stand for election as prime minister, the next you are that prime minister (with the shorter but still flattering haircut to prove it). You're knee-deep in a cancer drug supply crisis and about to meet with the French president who alone can solve your problem,
Before news of the kidnappings arrives, Dalton is hoping to cut a deal with Toussaint that will involve the UK taking in a boatful of Ebola-ravaged refugees that were refused entry at Calais in return for France giving the UK a large amount of lifesaving medicine. Deux political crises averted with une stone, you see. Then the terrorists step in and demand as their ransom Dalton's resignation by 1pm the next day.
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