The series originally aired on the Fox network from July 14 until September 1, 1997. It is set in the year 400 AD, following a young Irish man, Conor, as he sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans. The series also starred Vera Farmiga, Lisa Zane, John Saint Ryan and Sebastian Roché.
Each story is about women's experiences and how women navigate through other's perceptions of them as well as their own. Highlighting what it means to be a woman, these stories are considered "darkly comic feminist fables"