This fascinating documentary offers a modernist vision of Québec history in a portrait of the social activist Léa Roback. Throughout her long and productive life (she was 86 when filming began) as a feminist, pacifist, unionist, and Communist, this remarkable woman has been in the forefront of all the major struggles that helped shape present-day Québec. Born to Polish-Jewish emigré parents, she experienced the meat-grinder of industrialism working in the garment industry; in the twenties, she traveled to Europe and was affected by the politics and theatre of Brecht. Returning to Québec, she dedicated her life to organizing and improving life for women in Québec society. Time has done nothing to diminish Roback's vitality and humor, and she offers a fresh and highly personal view of a radically changing society. This film blows apart the notion that nothing much happened in Québec before the Quiet Revolution.