Forty thousand years ago, a Neanderthal woman fights for survival and is confronted by leopards and bison, the relentless winter and the starvation that accompanies it. Rose, a pregnant archaeologist in the present day, makes a surprising discovery when she finds the fossil of a Neanderthal next to the bones of a Homo sapiens. The link between the two women is the experience of motherhood - and in particular the moment of birth, that glorious moment that unites people's lives no matter how many millennia pass. "Eternal Women" is an epic journey through the ages that asks us to rethink what it really means to be human.