After accepting a trip to Europe as a bribe from her parents to attend the college of their choice as a business major, seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers she is unwilling to give up her dream of being an actress--or Jesse, the boy she met in Italy.
Follows Caleb, a struggling playwright; Frank, a director; Henry, an actor; Toby, an acting student; Jessie, a personal assistant; and Kenneth, an underling theater critic, as their ambitions and love lives intersect on New York's theater scene.
Emma and Hannah interview their grandfathers to learn more about WW II, and learn about D-Day. They learn how the Battle of Normandy turned the tide for the Allied foreces during the war.
Alice and Lucy are members of the NAWSA and are trying to get women the right to vote. Alice is imprisoned. After about 2 1/2 years, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitiution is passed.