The lives of three very different women born on the same day converge with startling resonance. As a radical feminist, Antonia has never believed in quick fix solutions. After years of planning, she and her lover, the charismatic and bipolar Josephine, found an independent nation for women. Dr Katherine North is not a sentimental woman, but after she reads that an old lover has died, she's driven to make peace with the woman who still haunts her. Kitty Trevelyan never considered abortion when she got pregnant at 18. Three women, all 41, what is their connection?