After seeing WWII injured soldiers in hospitals trying to regain their independence, Bessie Blount, a Black physiotherapist invents a device to allow seriously wounded and amputees to eat food without physical assistance. The hospital dismisses her efforts even after she creates a working prototype, and she goes on a local tv show to try to get funding. The story ends abruptly before she does become successful as a forensic handwriting expert assisting police and later as the Chief Medical Examiner for the Virginia police department.