Annie Jermaine (Reiko Aylesworth) immigrates from Europe to America where she becomes a housemaid for a wealthy doctor.
However, she is unable to utilize her knowledge due to the popular belief that women were not capable of practicing medicine.
Susan (Charlotte Ross) is a hippie who becomes a doctor and later opens up a health clinic for battered women.
Jessie (Sônia Braga) is a farm worker who walked the fields of the San Joaquin Valley for nearly half a century.
Seeing those around her struggle and sometimes die because of poor living and working conditions, she wanted to help and joined César Chávez to make a change.