故事发生在二战结束之后，安东尼娅（维力奇·范·阿麦莱 Willeke van Ammelrooy 饰）带着女儿达尼埃莱（埃尔斯·多特曼斯 Els Dottermans 饰）回到了久违的家乡。安东尼娅乐善好施的善良性格为战后满目疮痍的家园带来的新的希望，她先后收留了痴呆女孩代代（玛丽娜·德·格拉夫 Marina de Graaf 饰）和农夫巴斯（简·德克莱尔 Jan Decleir 饰）等人，组件了一个特殊的家族——安东尼娅家族。
一种温馨又紧密的关系维系着这些并没有血缘关系的家人们，在相互扶持之间，却也存在着难以调和的矛盾。达尼埃莱怀孕后生下了特雷莎（Veerle van Overloop 饰），小特雷莎长大后，却惨遭皮特（Filip Peeters 饰）的强暴。随着时间的流逝，安东尼娅家族不断的壮大着，而安东尼娅自己的生命却走向了尽头。

故事发生在一间阴暗人稀的剧院之中，编剧托马斯（马修·阿马立克 饰）正在为他所改编的剧本《穿裘皮的维纳斯》寻找合适的女主角。接连面试的几位演员都令托马斯感到失望，她们和他脑海里完美的女神形象简直千差万别。面试以一无所获的结局结束了，正当托马斯准备离开之时，一位被淋成了落汤鸡的落魄女郎闯入了剧院。
女郎名叫旺达（艾玛纽尔·塞尼耶 饰），巧合的是，她与托马斯剧本中的女主角同名，可是，旺达粗鲁的举止和浅薄的学识让托马斯在内心里暗暗的否定了她。令托马斯感到惊讶的是，旺达不仅拥有全部的剧本，还自备了戏服，在旺达的一再坚持下，托马斯同意了她想要试演的请求，并且亲自与她对戏。就这样，在瓢泼大雨之中，一场关于男人与女人、命令与服从的好戏拉开了帷幕。

I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
—Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837
As the United States Supreme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six pivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Supreme Court blind to sexism.
Now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.