Second life Miriel West

An exciting story about the courage, stamina and rethinking of life, the action of which takes place in Los Angeles of the 20s of the XX century, is based on a real story about the only colony in America for lepers.
When a doctor diagnoses a leprosy in a rich and egocentric secular lioness Miriel West, she believes that this is just a mistake. After all, such a disease is found only on the pages of books or magazines! But her life is changing overnight: she is taken from her husband, small daughters and deprived of all the amenities that she is used to.
At first she hopes that her exile will be short -lived, but those who were sent to Carville - a leprosorius in Louisiana - rather prisoners than patients. Now she must find a new goal in these walls, struggling with an unbearable fate.
She has to go through all the stages of the inevitable - from denial to acceptance, gaining new experience and change. After all, even in the most gloomy circumstances there is light and life