The one who wanted to drive the tram

November 1914. Agnès lives in the suburbs of Lyon and works in a factory as a weaver. While taking the tram home, she learns that since mobilization, the transport company has been forced to employ women to keep its services running. She meets the personnel manager and is hired as a wattwoman, a tram driver.
In early 1917, her husband Célestin is demobilized after being wounded. Back home, the young man finds it increasingly difficult to accept that his wife has a rewarding job and earns more money than he does. He starts drinking and reproaching Agnès, who refuses to give up the job she loves so much.

When the war ended, Agnès was fired: men had to regain their place. Hurt by this injustice, she joins the suffragette movement, which campaigns for women’s right to vote. There she meets Madeleine Pelletier, a leading figure in feminism. Célestin cannot stand his wife’s activism. He threatens her, accuses her of associating with “inverts” and even goes so far as to hit her when she is arrested during a demonstration.

Agnès considers running away and filing for divorce, but during a final argument, Célestin violently strikes her on the head and kills her.
Thirty years later, in 1945, Agnès’ niece, Luce, goes to the town hall to vote for the first time. Agnès’ struggle was not in vain.