Charity Girl

During World War I seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthy widower twice her age. Determined to find love on her own terms she is intoxicated by her newfound freedom and the patriotic fervor of the day. That is until a soldier reports her as his last sexual contact sweeping her up in the government's wartime crusade against venereal disease. Quarantined in a detention center Frieda finds in the Home's confines a group of brash unforgettable women who help her see the way to a new kind of independence.