A director calls upon his favourite actresses with whom he’s worked and whom he’s loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t give much away: he observes them and gleans inspiration, until his imagination catapults them into another era, a past time when the noise of sewing machines fills a workplace managed and populated by women, where men only play marginal roles and the story of cinema can be told from another point of view: that of its costumes. Amidst loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartrending shortcomings and unshakeable bonds, reality and fiction interweave, as do the lives of these actresses with those of their characters, competition with sisterhood and the visible with the invisible.