Una periodista del periódico New York Post llamada Susannah Cahalan comienza a tener problemas de salud graves, como convulsiones y escuchar voces. A medida que las semanas pasan, su condición empeora y rápidamente se mueve de la violencia a la catatonia. Después de numerosos diagnósticos erróneos y una hospitalización, un médico finalmente le da el diagnóstico y la esperanza de reconstruir su vida.

A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.

La Historia apenas conocida de los activistas del movimiento que desafió a la Asociación Estadounidense de Psiquiatría para que eliminara la homosexualidad de su manual de enfermedades mentales.

Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man tenders his resignation. One autumn morning he is sitting on the riverbank in a favourite place where he used to fish with his godson. Suddenly he notices the figure of a shapely semi-naked girl emerging from the fog. She is shivering with cold. Alex spontaneously offers his help, and thus becomes part of an incredible adventure story.