خلاصه داستان : در سال 1943، یک پزشک پناهنده از آلمان نازی از روش‌های جدیدی برای توانبخشی افراد آسیب‌دیده ستون فقرات در بریتانیای کبیر استفاده کرد. بر اساس وقایع واقعی

Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.