Tender Comrades plays on the conventions of documentary film making to tell a fictional story of a radical intellectual celebrity named Sophie Vix Maurer and her biggest fan: a fictionalized version of the artist herself. Shot partially at Occupy Wall Street, the film uses real-life events, fake interviews, and lo-fi re-enactments to illuminate a seldom examined history of anarchism and subversive movements. The stories Sophie re-tells are drawn from the memoirs of 20th century anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, the legendary shooting of their contemporary, Voltairine de Cleyre, and a heart-wrenching anecdote about two women imprisoned during the Dirty War in Argentina.