A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.
A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause.
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
