Day 6: Another Time Period – London, 1912, the turning point for the British Suffragettes and their movement to extend the right to vote to women. Inspired by the film Suffragette.
Rebellion
Emma Swan, doting mother, wife, has been working as a laundress since the age of fourteen. While her work, alongside her husband, Neal, has put food on their table and clothes on the back of their son, Henry, it has been a struggle since the start. Having faced sexual violence, long work hours and unsafe working conditions, she doesn’t realize just how close she is to the end of her rope until she finds herself dangling. It only takes stumbling upon a riotous act by two suffragettes for her fingers to finally slip.
Knowing she is putting her family and her job at risk, she joins the movement, testifying before Parliament and attending rallies and demonstrations. A speech given by Mary Margaret Nolan, the most notorious Suffragette in all of Britain, is broken up by the police and Emma is hauled away to prison. While inside, she endures hardships she’d never imagined, but forms bonds with the other women stronger than anything she’s ever felt before. She’s a fighter now and emerges with fire in her eyes and a determination to never back down, ever again.
Upon her release, she arrives home to an irate husband who promptly kicks her out of her home, accusing her of shaming him to the core and of being the worst possible mother for their son. She finds herself destitute, surviving only through the kindness of her fellow warriors, sleeping in an abandoned train station far from her son.
Killian Jones notices the first day Emma does not arrive to work.
Published
It All Starts With a Dance 