خلاصه داستان : مندی گارلند کر و لال به دنیا آمده است اما پدر و مادرش معتقدند که می‌تواند با معلمی خصوصی توانایی صحبت کردن را بیاموزد....

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.