The film opens with a young man riding a motorcycle through the woods carrying a box of food items for a hermit woman living far and isolated from the nearest community. As he reaches the cabin to drop off the food and pick up his money in return, he becomes curious of the cabin and looks inside. He finds the old woman dead upon the floor of the cabin, with her arms folded on her chest and flowers covering her eyes. The young Billy Fisher quickly flees the cabin and back to town. When the local sheriff Todd Peterson hears of the incident he seeks the help of the local doctor Jerome Lovell to analyze the body. While looking through the cabin Jerome discovers a young woman within the cabin who quickly screams and acts hostile towards the men.
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The mother who had also suffered from strokes also left her impaired speech problems with Nell who knew no other pronunciation of English. As the relationships with the doctors and Nell develop, it becomes apparent that both Lovell and Olson have social issues as well and care about Nell because of their similarities. After taking Nell to the local town to show her the modern world, word gets around of a “wild woman” living in the woods. It is not long before reporters and others become a threat to Nell’s wellbeing. In order to escape the developing pressure, Lovell and Olson are forced to take Nell to the hospital. There Nell stops all communication and appears hopeless. As the desperation of Jerome Lovell sets in Nell accepts the fact that she needs to begin her upbringing to societies standards. As Nell was very limited in her communication capabilities she provides multiple examples of interpersonal communication struggles such as; a struggle of self awareness, limited exposure to interpersonal communication, and only her own definition of what communication
The mother who had also suffered from strokes also left her impaired speech problems with Nell who knew no other pronunciation of English. As the relationships with the doctors and Nell develop, it becomes apparent that both Lovell and Olson have social issues as well and care about Nell because of their similarities. After taking Nell to the local town to show her the modern world, word gets around of a “wild woman” living in the woods. It is not long before reporters and others become a threat to Nell’s wellbeing. In order to escape the developing pressure, Lovell and Olson are forced to take Nell to the hospital. There Nell stops all communication and appears hopeless. As the desperation of Jerome Lovell sets in Nell accepts the fact that she needs to begin her upbringing to societies standards. As Nell was very limited in her communication capabilities she provides multiple examples of interpersonal communication struggles such as; a struggle of self awareness, limited exposure to interpersonal communication, and only her own definition of what communication