Silent Sky is a witty, fictionalized portrayal of the life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt who receives the opportunity of a lifetime when she is called to join Harvard’s corps of “computers”. With her compatriots, Annie Jump Cannon and Wilhelmina Flemming, Leavitt searches photographs of the night sky, mapping the stars in order to determine our place in the galaxy. Family and romance vie for her attention as she catalogues the stars. She is torn between a life of love, of duty, and of devotion to science.