In 1967, a young woman came to Dr Wainer's Melbourne surgery seeking emergency treatment after a backyard abortion. For Wainer it marked the beginning of a long struggle to overturn laws that made abortion an offence, punishable by up to 15 years in jail. Through the use of dramatic recreations and archival footage, Moore's film charts Wainer's unswerving campaign to force the decriminalisation of abortion onto the political agenda.