After a suicide attempt, a young man in a psych ward retreats into silence, until a gifted psychologist forces him to confront the question that has haunted him his entire life: is he destined to inherit his mother's madness?
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.