It's 1916, and the seventy-five-year struggle for women to gain the right to vote has escalated. Sarah Jordan, a young woman who embraces the cause, is determined to lend her voice to the growing dissent across the country. However, there is a choice to be made. Alex Taylor, the young lawyer she's in love with, works in a firm that opposes women gaining the vote, and he claims Sarah's political beliefs threaten his career. Heartbroken, Sarah turns her back on Alex and begins a journey that will take her from everything she's ever known to Washington, D.C., to join the pickets at the White House and on to the infamous Occoquan Workhouse as a prisoner. When she becomes a victim of the 'Night of Terror', Alex discovers she is near death and rushes to Washington to the save the life of the woman he's always loved. Together they must make the right choice-one that will affect not only their lives but also those of generations of women yet to be born.