Overview
Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to blossom, but finally she falls into a coma. While she is able to have some 'looking down' awareness of what is happening, her coma is what brings her husband to an understanding of the needs of others.
Director and cast
- Howard Goldberg Director
- Joanna Going as Helen Kunen
- Dylan Walsh as Bill Kunen
- Sean Patrick Flanery as Dave Edgerton
- Sean Christensen as Rick
- Edward O'Blenis as Sonny
- John Aylward as Dr. Bryson
- Anne Christianson as Milly
- Marjorie Nelson as Ruth
- R. Hamilton Wright as Mr. Bainbridge
- Stephen Lennstrom as Johnny
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