Roughly 50 years prior in 1927, defiant adolescent Rose (Millicent Simmonds),
deaf since birth, runs away from tyrannical father Dr. Kincaid (James Urbaniak) and snags the ferry to New York, her brother Walter (Cory Michael Smith) sending his sister a postcard informing the
child their estranged actress mother Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore) has returned to the city from Hollywood to star in a play on Broadway.
If your
child is not failing school... and
since they are not completely
deaf — many seem to think they do not, or should not, qualify for special services.