Herb Rizer and Shalola Mutnick Lessner collaborate on an ideologically feminist musical. During their sessions, Shalola relates stories about leaving her girlhood home in 1945 at age thirteen in response to an ad in a local newspaper to help Zionists relocate persecuted Jews to Palestine. She convinces a recruiting committee in New York to engage her, travels by tramp steamer to the Middle East, and joins the Zionist army for training. Herb experiences heart-wrenching stories from Shalola's years with messes from Hitler's attempted genocide and her efforts in the establishment of the State of Israel. Traipsing through the attics and barns of Russia, the hiding places in Holland, and the dispossessed hermitages of Yugoslavia, Shalola rescues thousands before being caught and incarcerated in a pig sty where she miscarries her lover's child. The woman's extraordinary life inspires the writing of Bright Side of Tomorrow, a musical destined to portray women's causes.