Dolores Huerta bucks Fifties gender conventions by beginning the nation's first farm employee's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What begins out as a wrestle for racial and labor justice, quickly turns into a combat for gender equality throughout the identical union she is finally pressured to depart. As she wrestles with elevating 11 youngsters, three marriages, and is sort of overwhelmed to demise by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a imaginative and prescient that connects her new discovered feminism with racial and sophistication justice.