1956 it's Ellen Crosby's first day at work as a student nurse at ambergate county lunatic asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' availa...1956 it's Ellen Crosby's first day at work as a student nurse at ambergate county lunatic asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' available for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever.