影片讲述一个多世纪前,英国妇女为了争取选举权而不懈斗争的故事。斯特里普在片中饰演的埃米琳·潘克赫斯特是一位著名的妇女选举权倡导者。她与几位同盟者发起成立了“妇女议会”,在国会开会时,她们也开会,与议会唱对台戏。由于采取了激进的斗争措施,潘克赫斯特同她的同盟者们曾多次入狱,在社会上造成了很大的反响。。When Isabella Tree and her husband arrived at the rural estate they had inherited and saw the vast swathes of farmland that came with it, they immediately saw how sick the land was—entire habitats destroyed, bird and plant species gone extinct, fields saturated with chemicals. The experiment they decided to undertake was extreme: To heal nature, they had to let it heal itself. ...。