What is the plot of The Laundromat?

The Laundromat tells the story of a frustrated middle-class widow, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) who is on a hunt to investigate a fake insurance policy that has stripped her of her money.

When Streep starts to dig a little to find out exactly what happened to her money, she uncovers a string of questionable dealings linked to a Panama City law firm. The problems, she discovers, are much bigger than she ever could have imagined.

Her trail leads her to a pair of Panama City law partners, Jurgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramon Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) who are at the centre of an international scam involving shell companies, offshore accounts, and corrupt financial dealings that help the world’s wealthiest individuals prosper. The sleazy duo are having a great time exploiting the world’s financial systems, until Martin arrives on the scenes to blow their cover. “Somebody has to sound the alarm!” she declares, and that’s exactly what she sets about to do.

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