Plot

French Surrealist lesbian sisters, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, played by Kathleen Chalfant and Marty Pottenger leave Paris for Jersey Isle in 1937. They collaborate creating gender-bending photographs, collages, and writing. During the WWII Nazi occupation they perform heroic and imaginative acts of Resistance as 'The Unknown Soldier' Captured, imprisoned, sentenced to death, they attempt suicide. They are eventually reprieved.

Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were a lesbian couple and step-sisters who lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying the island of Jersey during World War II, they were captured and sentenced to death.