在很小的時候，一場怕的疾病奪走了少女倫凱勒（帕蒂·杜克 Patty Duke 飾）的視力、聽力和聲音，讓她墜入了無無盡的孤獨和黑暗之，看到女兒絕望痛苦模樣，海倫的父母無為力。隨著時間的推，海倫漸漸長大，不的生活讓她的性格變乖張暴戾，猶如一匹法馴服的野馬。就在時，一位名叫安妮（妮·班克羅夫特 Anne Bancroft 飾）的家庭教師來到了海倫的身邊，盡安妮并沒有多少教學驗，但她用自己的耐和溫柔一點點融化著倫內(nèi)心的堅冰，教她味人間萬物的滋味，常愛和親情的溫暖。安妮的教導之下，海最終走出了陰影，重獲得了生活的希望?
Berlinger is the sorty of two men who grow up together in pre-war Germany; when Roeder's parents die, Berlinger's father takes the orphanedboy under his care. As the two boys approach adulthood, their contraddictory temperaments lead them along different paths: the idealistic young Berlinger, a brilliant chemist, refuses to give his father's factoy over to the Nazi war effort, much to the dismay of his friend Roeder, who has been managing the plant for him and has joined the Nazi party. Depsite the pressure Roeder puts on Berlinger to accede, such as threatening the lives of Berlinger's wife and child, nothing can coerce the staunch individualist to douse his spirit, and he takes his only recourseby escaping to Latin America and leaving his wife and child behind. Thirty years later Berlinger returns, still the stubborn ninconformist, mad about fying and filled with dreams of building a fleet of zeppelins in the now ramshackle factory. Roeder too is unchanged with an austerity similar to the skyscraper offcie from which he manages his company. Once more the ambitions of the two men clash: Roeder depends on Berlinger to sell his land in order to successfully conclude his property development schemes.
