在这部无边灾难纪录片片中,著名医药企业格兰泰药品公司研发了一种叫做“沙利度胺”的新药，称其百分之百安全，尤其适合孕期妇女服用。一位服用过这种药物的准妈妈顺利分娩，助产士却告诉她，她的孩子手臂极短，而且一生都不会像普通孩子一样正常成长... 对新生命的希望瞬间化为极度的恐惧。在接下来的数年中，出生了数万名类似的“沙利度胺畸形儿”。
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker John Zaritsky returns to the story that has fascinated and compelled him for years - thalidomide and it's effect on the survivors of \"the worst drug disaster in history.\" In this, his third film on the subject, he reconnects with some of the thalidomide victims he originally profiled when they were young, and introduces us to some new people who have been active in the fight for justice. He also highlights some recently released information about German pharmaceutical giant Grünenthal, who aggressively marketed the drug, and are now selling it again under a different usage, but still with no compensation for those who's lives they affected so deeply. The indefatigable spirit of the extraordinary thalidomide victims is cast against the callousness disregard of the drug's manufacturers in a film that lays out the story from it's beginnings in the late 50s to the current state of affairs in the present day.
