Description: Segment 1 A statue of a girl wearing leg braces breaks apart to reveal a dancing girl. The narrator says, 'What is a spastic? A lively person locked in a disobedient body'. A white dove flies through the air and then a cage appears around it. A voice says, 'What is a spastic? A lively spirit caged.' Opening credits. A man in a wheelchair rolls down a countryside hill as a voice says 'Oh how I love the spring'. The (unnamed) professor of child health appears and also recites the poem, which he says was written by a boy with cerebral palsy. He gives some statistics on the number of cerebral palsy births and then explains what cerebral palsy is. Disabled children are seen eating dinner. Using a diagram of the nervous system, the professor explains the two types of cerebral palsy, spastic and athetoid. Three children walk down a road one has no disabilities, one has spastic cerebral palsy and the third has athetoid cerebral palsy. The three children's hands are then seen playing the piano. Children with varying degrees of disability are seen. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:06:29:20 Length: 00:06:29:20 Segment 2 The professor explains that prevention of cerebral palsy before birth is currently being researched at Guy's Hospital. The laboratory is seen. Physical therapy is then discussed a baby and toddler with no disabilities are shown, and then a toddler with cerebral palsy. He has his limbs manipulated as part of physical therapy. Different children are seen learning to walk. Coordination exercises such as using building blocks are also seen. Next, speech therapy is shown. Children practice moving their tongues and speaking. Then children's voices are heard saying, 'Every movement is an adventure - I never know what my legs will do next', and talking about their progression in physical therapy classes. The film ends with the professor explaining that people with cerebral palsy do not want pity but sympathy and understanding. Time start: 00:06:29:20 Time end: 00:12:44:24 Length: 00:06:15:04