In 1968, women at a car firm demand equality. Fact-based comedy drama with Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Miranda Richardson. Sassy dramatisation of the 1968 strike by 187 female machinists at Fords Dagenham motor factory, an act of establishment-shaking defiance that led to the Equal Pay Act. Backed by sympathetic foreman Bob Hoskins, Sally Hawkins leads the walkout with fellow working girls Jaime Winstone and Geraldine James, while Miranda Richardson provides support from the top as formidable employment minister Barbara Castle.