Director Sarah Gavron’s intense drama traces the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote. Maud has worked hard and exploitative hours in the same factory job since she was a girl; her only respite is the affection of her husband and their sweet young son. When her deepening friendships with fellow worker Violet and activist Edith Ellyn fuel her sense of injustice, she commits to the suffrage cause. Maud joins at the same time that the movement becomes more radical and violent, spurred on by the rousing leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst and in reaction to the increasingly hostile interventions of the state. In joining the fight for equality, she unites with women who risk their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives.