The Ballad of Little Jo

“In the Wild West, a woman had only two choices. She could be a wife or she could be a whore... Josephine Monaghan chose to be a man.”

Jo Monaghan (Suzy Amis) is put out of her family's house and wants only to get by in the Wild West, where a woman alone has few ways to survive. She takes the one that is left to her, cutting her hair and dressing as a man. Maggie Greenwald, drawing on the life of the real Joe Monaghan, sets that disguise against a frontier where a person's safety depends on what other people believe they are.