A Woman Of Some Importance
After her brother’s tragic farm accident in 1900, Birdie leaves home on the Nebraska prairie and travels across the country, drawn by the promises of a charismatic but ruthless industrialist. First at the Biltmore in North Carolina, and then in New York City, she’s thrust into high society’s Gilded Age, contending with the excesses and power play of Astors and Vanderbilts. Resisting her wealthy husband’s project to mold her into the woman that his ambitions demand, she strikes up a surprising friendship with a popular author and his wife, Grace who introduces Birdie to the struggle for women’s suffrage. Birdie awakens to her own sense of purpose as she slowly discovers who she does and does not want to become.