Jo Spence (1934-1992) was a British photographer whose life, career and work provide an insight into the shifting status of women artists during 1970s and 1980s in Britain. From a working class background and based in London for most of her life, Spence’s career spanned four decades from the early 1950s to her untimely death in 1992. Beginning in the commercial photography sector, Spence worked her way up to become an independent photographer. Spence is notable for making work on her own terms and is a key figure in the history of feminist photography.

​This documentary was made in 1987 and follows Spence's journey navigating her battle with medical professionals and the preservation of her bodily autonomy as she attempts to fight breast cancer. As an artist who spent her life challenging cultural representations of gender, class and sexuality she used her camera and her body as a way to breakdown conformity. This is most evident in her later work which she called photo-therapy, a method of photographing herself throughout her illness and addressing themes of memory and identity.