Rebecca Skloot is an best selling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which has been
translated into more than twenty languages, adapted into a young adult book, and an
HBO film.
Una mujer afroamericana se vuelve pionera en el mundo de la medicina cuando sus células son usadas para crear la primera serie de células humanas inmortales a principios de los años 50.
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a full-blow rebel in the hospital; her increasing violence threatens to keep her locked up for life as she fights for her voice and her freedom.
