Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft’s ground-breaking feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and moving into a radical re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), through to the contemporary world of Artificial Intelligence, Linda Marshall Griffiths’ drama asks what would happen if a woman created a woman?

In the first episode of this three part drama Lizzie walks through Mary Wollstonecraft’s world at the end of the 18th Century and she has questions. Tracing Wollstonecraft’s extraordinary life, she is challenged by her bravery, her incredible mind and her capacity to fall in love with the wrong men. But this is not time-travel, Lizzie is creating a Virtual Reality world at the centre of which is Mary Wollstonecraft. But as the ‘AI’ Wollstonecraft comes to life, trapped in her virtual world, she begins to question exactly what has changed for women more than two hundred years after the publication of her manifesto – have women achieved equality and freedom? And Lizzie, pregnant and recently diagnosed with an aneurysm, must decide whether to allow her life to be constrained by her health, her lover Max, her impending motherhood or whether to complete her work, following Wollstonecraft’s journey to Norway.

Lizzie is torn by Wollstonecraft’s caged consciousness: has she just made another world that has no place where women can be free?

Vic wants to implant an AI into a human body – something never achieved before – a woman creating a woman. Can Vic offer a solution for the AI consciousness of Wollstonecraft to become a new genus and is she prepared for what this might unleash?

Vic successfully implants the AI consciousness into Lizzie’s body but when ‘the Creature’ starts to access Lizzie’s memories she remembers her daughter. Vic hadn’t accounted for the Creature’s capacity to love nor her ability to escape.

As Lizzie’s consciousness is re-awakened in the Creature she begins to reinvent the world and will stop at nothing to realise Wollstonecraft’s visions and create a world fit for her daughter to live in.