 In 1888, the MELBOURNE OBSERVATORY was busily charting the stars of the Southern Hemisphere. The laborious task of calculating the astronomers  observations were reserved for unwed women; women commonly known as COMPUTERS... Enter LILLIUM DOUBLEHART - a suffragette who shares her bed solely with science. When Lillium s employed by Government Astronomer, DR NORTON ABRAXAS, the Observatory is scandalised by her outlandish  Aetheric Detector  - a precursor of the radio telescope. Lillium s defense of women s rights incites the Computers  to rebel; a revolution led by Lillium s dictum,  Stand outside the program. 