Great Britain, the early twentieth century. Society is outraged: who are these women going out into the streets demanding the right to vote? How dare they? Such behavior is absolutely not feminine. Women are supposed to tend the home hearth, not argue, and be clever. But what if the desire to follow a dream is stronger than social conventions, prejudice, and other people’s opinions? Evelyn is seventeen—she dreams of Oxford. But her father has prepared a different future for his daughter: she must learn not Latin, but household management, and get married. Mae is fifteen—she supports the suffragists, but not their methods of struggle, because violence is unacceptable to her. When she meets Nell, she sees in her a kindred spirit. Now together they can create a new world. The fight for personal freedom challenges the three heroines, sweeping them into a whirlwind of events: suffragist rallies, mass meetings, clashes with the police, arrests, misunderstanding from loved ones, and the First World War. This is the story of three intelligent young women seeking themselves in an unjust world—one that, thanks to their efforts, will become a little better.