

Dr. Whitman is caught between wanting to help his patient with methadone and the law prohibiting paroled ex-addicts from using any kind of drugs.

Dr. Whitman finds himself confronted with a 12-year-old boy who, after four years of treatment, has slipped away into a fantasy world from which he refuses to emerge.

Whitman's patient is an Indian married to a Caucasian with an identity crisis. He has lost his job and is trying to destroy his marriage by putting up a racial barrier.