At what cost do we resist our identity? At what cost do we claim it? From Sappho and her lovers on the island of Lesbos, to Héloïse and Marianne on the coast of France, to poets H.D. and Bryher in the Scilly Isles, sapphic love is tense and precarious. And yet, across space and time, women choose it. “While You Love Me” explores the choice between love and life for women in a society that insists they can only have one or the other.