Then World War II came along and the men went off to fight it, so the U.S. government mounted a campaign that assured us that good, feminine women would find ways to handle tough factory jobs. When the war ended and the men came back, the propaganda field reversed itself. This time, the propaganda didn't accomplish its goal so well. Connie Field's documentary explores this key sequence in American feminist consciousness. Gradually, the reality of the Stalinist purges intrudes.
All action takes place in the course of a single day, but depicts a political lifetime.