Through a series of cascading vignettes, the intertwined lives of real feminists at the turn of the 20th century are mesmerizingly reimagined -- from Romaine Brooks and Lina Poletti to Josephine Baker and Virginia Woolf. United by the same muse, these women and more break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths, eager to brave the same five words: "we live/ ... the opposite/ ... daring".