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Year 1955. - The famous blind and deaf Writer, and Human Rights Activist Helen Keller and her companion Polly Thomson have breakfast together at their home “Arcan Ridge“ in Easton, Connecticut, . Then Helen goes for a walk. TRANSCRIPT: Polly meanwhile has brought up the breakfast. Sometimes something is missing from the tray, and it is Helen who goes downstairs to fetch it. Polly knows that it pleases Helen to wait upon her when she can. Everywhere else, except in her own familiar house, it is Helen who must be waited upon by Polly. Here where every table, every chair and every dish in the cupboard is her intimate friend, Helen can move freely and independently. Though in this quiet house Polly need not speak aloud to Helen, she usually does. It helps to drive back the silence. First concern of the day is always the weather, to know how to dress for the morning walk with her dog. Clear but cold. She checks with her Braille thermometer. She is right. In her dressing room Helen is independent. She knows her clothes and where to find them, even to a stray belt. Every morning Helen goes for a walk along a one thousand foot handrail, built by a loving friend to guide her. One thousand feet where she is alone and free. The walk seldom varies. But for Helen it is always full of small unexpected events. Helen has known from childhood what those with sight cannot realize. That one does not need eyes to see the world.
