In the late 19th century, Professor James Murray embarks on a mission to compile a comprehensive dictionary of the English language, enlisting the help of Dr. William Minor, an inmate at a lunatic asylum. As they work together, their unlikely collaboration becomes a fascinating tale of redemption, insanity, and the power of words.
Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as 'the silent twins' because of their refusal to communicate with anyone but each other. They developed their own language and became catatonic when separated. The story takes place after a spree of vandalism inspired by an American boy they both idolize, when the girls, now teenagers, are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
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