The Story of Beautiful Girl

The story of Lynnie, a young white woman with

a developmental disability that hinders her

ability to speak, and Homan, an African

American deaf man with only his home sign

language to guide him. Both were

institutionalized in the mid-twentieth

century, when people with disabilities were

routinely shut off from society and left to

languish without attention, forgotten.

One night, Lynnie and her sweetheart,

Homan, escape. They find refuge in the

farmhouse of the widow Martha, a retired

schoolteacher. But the couple is not alone;

Lynnie has just borne a child. The authories

catch up to them and Lynnie is caught. But just

before she is gruffly taken back to The

School for the Incurable and Feebleminded,

she utters two words to Martha: 'Hide her.'

And so begins the tale of three lives

desperate to connect, yet kept apart by

seemingly insurmountable obstacles.