what is the movie salt about

Salt is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, and Chiwetel Ejiofor). The movie is about a CIA agent named Evelyn Salt who is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the run to try to clear her name). Salt is working with Winter and Peabody when the CIA calls them in to interrogate a defector named Orlov. Orlov claims that the KGB has infiltrated long-term sleeper agents into the USA, brainwashing them as children and then sending them to grow up in the USA in perfect cover. Orlov also claims that the KGB has activated the sleepers and ordered them to assassinate the President of Russia who’s in New York for the funeral of the US Vice President. Eventually, a flashback shows us that Salt is a Russian sleeper agent. She attacks the vice-president’s funeral and appears to kill the Russian president before surrendering to the New York police. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA.