To escape from the restraints of a suffocating relationship, Anna moves into a flat with a female friend, Prue. In the old attic room which she adopts as her study, Anna is presented with a ghostly series of women through the ages - women who, like Anna, have not conformed to the usual female roles of wife and mother - a Victorian spinster, a nun, a nurse, and a young wife who dies childless. Through these and the visits of the less transient figures of Simon, her devoted boyfriend, Dan, her flat-mates's manipulative brother and Harriet, Prue's mother, Anna contemplates her life and what she wants from it. As Dan says to her 'You don't know where you want to go and you don't know how to get there. Twentieth Century Woman's dilemma!'

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