Old Baggage

It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. In her youth, she was a militant suffragette. Jailed five times, she marched, sang, smashed windows and heckled Winston Churchill. But nothing since then has had the same depth, the same excitement. Now in middle age, Mattie is looking for a new purpose. Giving the wooden club she still keeps in her handbag a thoughtful twirl, she is struck by an idea - but what starts as a brilliantly idealistic plan is derailed by a connection with Mattie's militant past, one which begins to threaten every principle she stands for. Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who simply refuses to give up the fight.