Seventy-five American soldiers arrive at a psychiatric hospital suffering from what the military then called battle fatigue or shell shock, conditions now understood as PTSD. John Huston's camera follows their intake, treatment, and eventual discharge, filming group therapy sessions, hypnosis, and one-on-one interviews in which men describe stammering, paralysis, and amnesia brought on by combat. It is the third film Huston made for the U.S. Army during the war, and the bluntest: soldiers cry on camera, struggle to walk, and slowly regain speech and movement over the course of their stay. The Army shelved it for three decades, reportedly uneasy about showing psychologically broken servicemen to the public, and it only reached audiences decades after it was shot. There is no narrator layering judgment over the footage; the hospital's own process of diagnosis and recovery carries the film. What remains striking is how contemporary the symptoms look, and how little the label has changed even as the treatments have.