Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

As a child, Jennifer Fox vowed to be free like her father; she'd never marry and end up stuck at home with five kids like her mother. So once grown up, she became a filmmaker, traveled the world alone, had romances as she pleased and built up a rich social life in New York. But at 40, life began to unravel. After one of her friends became seriously ill, Fox decided to investigate what it means to be a "free" woman, for herself and for other women as well. Were her experiences as a woman solely personal? Or was there a red thread running through female life today beyond culture and class? To find out, she strove to enter the secret language of women -- that only occurs in the absence of men - using a new technique called "passing the camera". For four years, Fox "passed the camera" with more than a hundred women all over the globe, both friends and strangers. In their discussions - about sexuality, love, men, children, aging and role models - the camera allows the viewer to enter private conversations. By weaving the story of the filmmaker's own life and sexuality over four years with different stories of women from around the globe, creates a narrative about what it means to be a woman today.