Spirit

At the tail end of the 19th century, a young up-and-coming composer and author named Larysa Petrivna Kosach Kvitka decides to take her amateur writing to the next level, and, along with a group of like-minded individuals forms the Pleiada Literary Association and takes on a new name: Lesya Ukrainka.

At the turn of the 20th century, Sofia Okunevska fights gender discrimination to study and practice medicine. Against societal barriers, she earns her medical degree and becomes one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most respected physicians.