, follows a day in the life of Jane , a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who’s recently landed a job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. We watch as Jane makes coffee, schedules flights, arranges hotel bookings and delicately fends off unwanted calls, gradually becoming aware, task-by-task, of the abuse that insidiously colours every aspect of her working day.
Throughout each interview, the same small injustices would repeat themselves. “I’d hear the same stories again and again,” says Green. “Male colleagues being promoted while the women were left behind. A lot of gendered division of labour, men getting assigned certain tasks, women getting assigned others.” The further Green progressed with her research, the more the stories she was hearing would diverge from the prevailing narrative of assistants as ‘enablers’ of powerful and predatory men.