Following the hysteria caused by a single case of leprosy in 1927, the U.S. government began the forced quarantining of anyone diagnosed with the leprosy, or Hansen’s, disease. When diagnosed, patients were sent to live behind the walls of Louisiana’s Carville Quarantine Hospital. A treatment was discovered in 1941 that rendered the disease incommunicable, but the hospital continued to take quarantined patients for another sixteen years. In the face of tragedy and isolation, the people of Carville created a world of warmth and support. This film presents a well-paced look at a neglected group of people who refused to be denied their dignity.