Charlie Leroy is a self-centered, career-driven lawyer who succeeds in getting her client, an accused rapist, acquitted on the grounds that his accuser was wearing thong underwear at the time, which Charlie argues indicates that the sex was consensual. Charlie does this cynically, as she herself is wearing thong underwear that day. After celebrating her court victory, Charlie is given a ride by a magical taxi driver, Hubert, who causes her to travel through time to different moments in French history, as well as events in Charlie's own life and the life of her parents, so that she learns about the previous struggles of women to gain equality, and also gains a better understanding of her own mother's life and struggles.
Events in which Charlie participates include:
The trial of Joan of Arc in 1431, where Charlie, who is suspected of being in league with the devil due to her red underwear, is subjected to trial by water
Her parents getting their first bank account (which will be controlled by her father) in 1964
A brief encounter with a violent caveman in prehistoric times
A romantic evening of conversation with George Sand in 1850
Seeing her father acting abusively to a young Charlie and her mother, on the first observation of International Women's Day in France, in 1982
Accidentally running over Pierre Curie on a wagon, then convincing Aristide Briand (who is then Minister of Education) to appoint Pierre's widow Marie Curie to the professorship he held, in 1906
Meeting (and seducing) Napoleon Bonaparte as he is drafting language defining the roles of husband and wife that is subsequently included in the Napoleonic Code of 1804, in 1803
Charlie is eventually brought back to the morning of the trial, where she relieves the day differently. Charlie surprises everyone by representing the rape victim instead of the accused, and the trial ends in a finding of guilt.
In March 2021, it was announced Caroline Vigneaux, Sophia Aram, Suzanne Clément, Lison Daniel, Gad Elmaleh, Lannick Gautry, Emy Letertre, Florent Peyre and Sylvie Testud had joined the cast of the film, with Vigneaux directing from a screenplay she wrote, with Alain Goldman serving as a producer under his Légende Films banner, with Amazon Studios set to distribute.[2][3] The film overtly references the 1993 time loop film Groundhog Day, Charlie's radio alarm clock announces, "It is not Groundhog Day, it is National Women's day."
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