Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah's withdrawn emotional state, a romance slowly develops between the pair.

• Paramount Pictures
• William Hurt
• Marlee Matlin
• Piper Laurie
• Philip Bosco
• Allison Gompf
• John F. Cleary
• Philip Holmes
• Georgia Ann Cline