Performers
Juliet Stevenson
Maureen All
Gillian Hanna
Margaret Robertson
Berthe Cleyrerque
Janet Flanner
Giselle Freund
Samuel Steward
Catharine Stimpson
Shari Benstock
John Bernard

In the first quarter of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed cultural capital of the world. It was also the meeting place for a new generation of artists, who flocked to the West Bank to live and work.
Among them were numerous female (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers who settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France; some developed an expat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

This documentary shows archival footage, music, paintings, literature and interviews with the women who were part of the scene: Berenice Abbott, Gisele Freund, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Gertrude Stein, Alice B Toklas, Colette, Janet Flanner and others. Together they created a now legendary community.

Gertrude Stein, with Alice B Toklas as her muse, brought Picasso, Matisse and others under her wing. Adrienne Monnier, with her partner Sylvia Beach, opened a book shop-cum-library and gave an audience with little pocket money access to books. Natalie Barney's Friday literary salon became a legend and from here Janet Flanner wrote her "Letter from France" for the New Yorker.

A unique documentary chronicling the contribution of a handful of women to the life and art of the Left Bank between and before the two world wars.