本片改编自已故爱尔兰天才作家兼画家克里斯蒂?布朗的自传体小说。
基提(丹尼尔?戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰)天生大脑麻痹身体残疾,只有左脚能灵活如常人。他没有生活自理能力,为家里带来了很大的负担,幼时总是遭到周围孩子的嘲弄,父亲险些放弃他,而母亲(布兰达?弗里克 Brenda Fricker 饰)却一直对他悉心照顾,不离不弃。基提心理苦闷却不能用语言来表达,试图用左脚写字...
A rising prosecutor spends the night at a rival defense attorney's home. Awakened next to his murdered body, things go from bad to worse when she's asked to prosecute his murder....