When a timid, rookie lawyer defends a case that hits close to home, she finds inspiration from her renowned actress-suffragist great grandmother's diaries for the courage to save women's lives and change the course of history. 

SYNOPSIS:

Jewel Prescott, a timid, rookie lawyer, moves cross-country when she inherits her grandmother’s house. At her new law firm, she is assigned a case that brings up nightmares from her childhood. Her grandmother’s friends urge her to read her great grandmother’s diaries in the attic, because she changed the course of history.

Jewel’s great grandmother, Izetta Jewel, is a renowned stage actress and suffragist. A historical public figure, Izetta and National Woman’s Party picket the White House, and are thrown in a jail workhouse, beaten, tortured, and force fed. Their fight leads to the passage of the 19th amendment, granting women’s right to vote.

Izetta’s struggle inspires Jewel to fight for her client’s case, which mirrors the death of her own mother. Jewel finds an expert witness who developed car crash dummies for auto safety tests. Jewel takes her case to court, citing that her client’s death could have been prevented. Her expert witness testifies about the increase of serious injury and deaths of females. The reason: the adult female car crash dummy is the same one as the 12 year old child dummy. His solution, a car crash dummy with correct female dimensions, was denied 21 times over 45 years. Jewel wins her case, and the Judge orders the creation of a female car crash dummy, to save women’s lives.

Izetta’s inspiration gives Jewel the courage to demonstrate that women’s lives matter. She opens her own law firm, and with the spirit of her great-grandmother, continues the fight against women’s injustice.