A fascist assault interrupts a broadcast by a collective of housewives at Radio Donna in Rome. From this event, the film retraces eighty years of women's resistance in Italy. Archival images and testimonies explore the relationships and tensions between feminism, peasant struggles, and the labour movement, as well as women's confrontations with fascism,the Church, and political parties.

Yvonne Scholten is a dutch journalist, writer and filmmaker. After working as a foreign correspondent in Italy during the 1970s, she moved into television journalism and editing, while also developing a body of work concerned with politics, memory and social history.