It's 1922 in the Manhattan of gin, jazz and prosperity. Women wear
makeup and hitched hemlines - and enjoy a new freedom to vote and work.
Not so for Evelyn Lockhart, who is forbidden from pursuing her passion
to become one of the first female doctors. Chasing her dream will mean
turning her back on her family: her competitive sister, Viola; her
conservative parents; and the childhood best friend she is expected to
marry, Charlie.
In a desperate attempt to support herself through Columbia University's
medical school, Evie auditions for the infamous late-night Ziegfeld
Follies on Broadway. But if she gets the part, what will it mean for her
fledgling relationship with Upper East Side banker Thomas Whitman - a
man Evie thinks she could fall in love with, if only she lived a life
less scandalous?