When the rules don't work and a child is at stake, one teacher risks everything. Through love, patience and extraordinary commitment, a teacher breaks down the barriers of silent aggression and tames a highly disturbed child in this superbly-acted drama. Six-year-old Caitlin vandalizes property, smears excrement on walls and attacks other children, causing them devastating injuries. She has been branded psychotic and seems doomed to a life behind bars in a mental hospital. But, beneath this devilish exterior lies a very different character: a charming child of near-genius intelligence. And, when Caitlin joins Maggie Barnard's special education class, Maggie refuses to give up on the child, whom everyone else has abandoned-even if it means challenging the law. |
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