On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. The Correspondents follows six women: Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Clare Hollingworth, and Helen Kirkpatrick. From chasing down sources and dodging gunfire to conducting love affairs and socializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray, these six women are captured in all their complexity.