MARTHA is the true story of the week Martha Mitchell — wife of Nixon's former Attorney General, John Mitchell — was forcefully tranquilized and held captive in a Southern California hotel room in the wake of the Watergate break-in.

More than 50 years later, Watergate is a story that continues to fascinate the collective American psyche, with many parallels to be drawn to the corruption and dirty tricks that we see in today's politics. But the story of Martha Mitchell and her lost week in Southern California is one that has been largely forgotten or remains unknown to many Americans.

From Anita Hill, Monica Lewinsky, Solange Knowles, and Christine Blasey Ford, to countless others — we're only just beginning to address our history of marginalizing women and their voices.

This is a timely story that explores the all too frequent — and disturbingly acceptable — silencing of women's voices when they attempt to speak an inconvenient truth.