This documentary is about Alice Guy, the FIRST woman director. Starting in clerical work at the French studio, Gaumont, she quickly saw that so much more could be done with film. Previously cinema was limited to static, documentary street-shots. Alice had the vision to create and stage fictional drama. Before there was even the title of "film-maker", she'd begun to develop the language of cinema. Gaumont assigned her to run ALL of its production work. She was the only woman director in the world for 17 years.
Gaumont beat Hollywood by 20 years to matching sound and image, doing MTV-like filmed songs, sound synchronized with images-- color images. This was in the earliest years of the 20th century. Her studio sent Alice Guy to New York with the complicated process. The technology may not have gone over with the public, but she certainly did. She was highly-publicized in the American press and became heavily involved with the early American cinema-- pre-Hollywood.
But since then the woman has been entirely overlooked by the history books. Even at the time, much of her work was attributed to assistants or people who weren't involved at all. This documentary also described her efforts to find old copies or references to her films. Even in advanced years, she was very charming and sharp and alive. Alice Guy died in 1968 at the age of 95.