When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.
Recently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess, an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not.
Story takes place in the 1880’s in England when many upper class women are being sent to the doctor because they are depressed. To ease these patients’ stress, doctor has developed a form of therapy that involves the careful manual stimula¬tion of a certain female body part. All these women needed is to have an orgasm and it was doctor's duty to satisfy rich women whose husbands couldn’t.“Intimate massage” cure was shockingly effective and when doctor's Mortimer (Hugh Dancy) forwardthinking friend Edmund (Rupert Everett) unveiled the plans for his new electric-powered feather duster, Mortimer came up with a compelling idea… The result?
Well, it was the beginning of the revolution for women.