Examines the role of women in the industrial growth of the United States, France, and Great Britain through the lives of Catharine Greene, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, and Mary Quant.
Follows Caty and her daughter Cornelia through the latter half of the eighteenth century as they mingle with the heroes of the Revolutionary War, discovering that a woman's only means of power, flirting, can cause trouble and confusion.
