After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool Ben now an incomplete quadriplegic arrives in a rehabilitation center He meets with other handicapped persons tetraplegics paraplegics traumatized crania all victims of accidents as well as a handicapped since his early childhood They go through impotence despair and resignation with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life Despite everything hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties