In peace-agreement Ulster a mother rears her two daughters, as her husband is decommissioned from his violent paramilitary past.
In Florida a septuagenarian runs a community refuge for women - only the authorities have surrounded it as a threat to national security.
In laboratories all over the world the human genome is being dissected and decoded.
In Three Dreams in the Key of G three female voices - Mother, Crone and Creatrix - unknowingly influence each other's fates as each battles to assert themselves and discover their voices in hostile environments.