Inspired by events which took place in the Mennonite community in Bolivia between 2005 and 2009 and based on the eponymous book by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows the women's sinuous argument and winding path to collective action. The staging in closed hearing, accompanied by powerful performances by Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand among others, invites us viewers to a mental experiment initiated at the beginning of the film in those terms: "What follows is an act of female imagination.”