When 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job and out of their homes one morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, the country came to a standstill. Unexpectedly funny and told for the first time, this is the true story of one day that catapulted Iceland to the world’s superpower of gender equality.

The Day Iceland Stood Still is a collaboration between U.S. director Pamela Hogan, who campaigned as a high school student in the 1970s with her activist mother to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, who at the age of 7 accompanied her mother to that very strike in 1975. She thought that when she woke up the next morning “everything would be perfect.” The E.R.A. never passed, and Iceland still isn’t perfect - but it’s the only country to have closed over 90% of its gender gap, and committed to reaching full equality in the near future.

There’s a famous saying: “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” The Day Iceland Stood Still inspires viewers to re-imagine the possible.