Christine Garland has a young deaf daughter, Mandy. Her husband Harry is away from home.

As they realise their daughter's situation, the parents enrol Mandy in special education classes to try to get her to speak. They quarrel in the process and their marriage comes under strain. There are also hints of a possible affair between Christine and Dick Searle, the headmaster of the school for the deaf where Mandy is enrolled. Mandy's first speech is achieved by using a balloon. She is able to feel the vibrations of sound onto the balloon and know she had made a sound.

Harry Garland returns to Christine and Mandy and wants Mandy taken out of the school and sent to a private school. Christine strongly resists.

Searle perseveres and eventually, the training succeeds to the point where Mandy says "Mama". Searle's boss Ackland is unhappy about the relationship between Searle and Christine and word of this reaches Searle. Word also reaches Harry Garland who is staying with his parents in a large London townhouse. Harry goes to speak to Ackland. Then he confronts Christine.

He takes Mandy out of the school and takes her to his parent's house. Mandy is sad. The back garden looks onto a bomb-site where children are playing. The children ask her to play and ask her name. With her parents behind she says "Mandy" for the first time.
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== osoby ==			== profese ==
	Michael Balcon		Producent
	Leslie Norman		Producent

== osoby ==	== postava ==
Jack Hawkins	Dick Searle
Phyllis Calvert	Christine Garlandová
Dorothy Alison	paní Stocktonová
Mandy Miller	Mandy Garlandová

cena	festival	ročník	osoba	nominace/cena
Zlatý lev za nejlepší film	Benátský filmový festival	17 (1952)	Alan Paton	nominace
Zlatý lev za nejlepší film	Benátský filmový festival	17 (1952)	Leslie Norman	nominace
Nejlepší nováček v hlavní filmové roli	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Dorothy Alison	nominace
Nejlepší nováček v hlavní filmové roli	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Mandy Miller	nominace
Nejlepší film z libovolného zdroje	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Michael Balcon	nominace
Nejlepší film z libovolného zdroje	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Leslie Norman	nominace
Nejlepší britský herec	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Jack Hawkins	nominace
Nejlepší britský film	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Michael Balcon	nominace
Nejlepší britský film	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Leslie Norman	nominace
Nejlepší britská herečka	BAFTA	6 (1952)	Phyllis Calvert	nominace