En Angleterre, au début du XXe siècle, Maud, jeune femme de milieu modeste, s’engage dans le mouvement féministe des Suffragettes. Victime du rejet de son entourage et du manque d’écho des manifestations pacifiques, elle se radicalise dans son combat pour l’obtention du droit de vote des femmes…
The story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality. Maud was one such foot soldier…