The story of two women in Lyons, France, in the 1950s who are discontent in their conventional marriages and form a strong friendship. From Abigail Adams in 1776 to the present day. When a traveling cinema truck comes to their village, two little sisters are profoundly affected by viewing the old film, Frankenstein. The younger girl becomes obsessed with its images and story that she tries to recreate it in reality. Gender-base discrimination and harassment, Karen Lebacqz.
Rural peasants protest Green Revolution, preferring the traditional methods of farming.
Evelyn Fox Keller, a theoretical physicist in the Dept. of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, discusses how gender plays a significant role in the language that scientists use to describe their work. It uniquely portrays these two cultural minorities, reflecting the differences and similarities between their lifestyles and heritages. Through their own stories, art and drama, they insightfully share the pain and the joy of breaking free into an integrated sexuality and spirituality. They return to us as refugees from spiritual exile, refusing to be victims any longer and witnessing to the freedom that arises from the fusion of body and soul. They call upon the church not only to repent of its homophobia, but to celebrate the deep spiritual gifts they have because they are lesbians.