This entry in the Women Blazing the Trail series (6 titles) surveys the career of groundbreaking filmmaker Gerwig. It sets the stage with the release and unprecedented success of her 2023 film Barbie, using its global success as an argument for the director's value as a pioneering woman, before going back to Gerwig's days as an actor and tracing her path from the improv stage to the director's chair. The flow of text is broken up by color photography of Gerwig and her cohorts, as the prose strikes a steady march forward with simple sentences, the more challenging vocabulary set in bold and defined in a glossary. Back matter also includes a time line, source citations, an index, and further resources. Young film buffs will enjoy this solid overview of an inspiring young creative.