海伦娜·伯翰·卡特饰演了一位对医疗机构制度不满的精神病人,她持续反抗,希望病人们的待遇得到改善。希拉里·斯万克饰演的律师偶然之下代理了这个案子,她没有想到的是,这个病人的坚韧和勇敢最终感染了自己,令这份只为交差的工作变成了她为之奋斗一生的事业。When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.