In the early 1930s, having grown tired of the vapid romantic comedies and historical dramas that made her a star,
Louise Antoinette strikes a self-compromising bargain with a rapacious movie studio boss, Max Steinberg,
that will enable her to direct and play the lead in a motion picture intended to help liberate and empower women,
a screen adaptation of the bawdy Greek anti-war comedy,
"Lysistrata."