Synopsis:.England in 1925, a young woman in tattered clothes shows up at the door of the home of John and Anna Thorpe begging for food. It is soon discovered that she is unable to hear, speak, read or write. With signs of terrible physical abuse, she is taken into their home and, without knowing her given name, they call her Ellen..Through the difficulty of communication, together, they evolve a method of simple hand signals to 'speak' with her. Little...