剧情.莎拉·诺曼（，玛丽·玛特琳饰）是一位聋哑的年轻女子，她在新英格兰一家专为重听或聋哑学生提供教育服务的学校做清洁工。
片名.本片片名“Children of a Lesser God”来源于着名桂冠诗人丁尼生创作的《国王叙事诗》的第12章，其中的内容如下：<poem>I found Him in the shining of the stars,I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways w