A housewife and mother of four leaves Kansas to pursue a songwriting career in New York City.
Ruby is a feminist, and an ardent one at that. No amount of name-calling or persuasion is going to change her allegiance. She is also a folk-singer, and although Kansas is nice enough, it's no place to start a music career. She heads off to her eccentric uncle's place in New York City and tries to break into the record business there. Everyone wants her to soften the feminist edge to her lyrics before they'll take her seriously, and this she will not do. The city has its own surprises for her, like getting arrested for prostitution while simply walking down 42nd Street. This modest independent feature took almost nine years to shoot, and was well received by movie-industry reviewers.
A housewife and mother of four leaves Kansas to pursue a songwriting career in New York City. When she hopped on the family motorcycle, with her guitar strapped to her back and her songs stuffed in her duffle bag, everyone thought she was crazy for having the audacity to believe that the things she wrote in her songs were important. They spoke for the under-represented woman that elitist feminists had overlooked, left behind. Ruby believed the songs she wrote for and about these women were important, could even have some culture-changing impact when the rest of the world heard them.