In this films we can find the story of three women, Virginia Woolf,Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan who all have the same feeling in common. They have problem with the female roles established by the society. This women live in the begining, in the middle and in the end of the 20th century, but in differents moments with the same problems, they had conflicts with the female roles.
Virginia, Laura and Clarissa also had a common bond in their position in relationships. Each of the women were in relationships that were dominated by the male dominance. Virginia Woolf had the dominating husband, Virginia always felt sorry for him but never would speak against her husband. She felt that she had to defend or to stand with him no matter what even if he was wrong.
Laura felt that she had to have everything perfect . Brown in the time where the husband would go off to work and the wife would stay home and take care of the family. Brown in the meantime would adore her husband and her family, She is finding it hard playing the role of wife to Dan, and mother to her son Richie, despite her appreciation for them.
Clarisa, on the other hand, works as an editor who resides in New York in the late twentieth century in the businessworld dominated by men., whereas she was ignored by the men and the decisions were made by the men although they asked for her input. She was there and yet, she did not want to be there. The biggest challenge was the love she had for Richard but yet, she also had love for Sally. Clarissa was also the protector, the mother for Richard. She wanted more from Richard But she could not get it from him.
In these three stories the role as a woman, friend or housewife was suffocated and the the word suicide takes the meaning of freedom.