In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the drug thalidomide was prescribed to pregnant women across the UK to treat morning sickness, and thousands of children were born with severe limb and organ damage as a result. This film follows one father's decades-long fight for compensation and accountability from one of Britain's largest corporations, tracing the campaign from its earliest days to a legal battle that stretched across ten years in the courts. Victims and their families give firsthand accounts of being institutionalized, hidden from public view, or simply left to die in infancy, and campaigners describe the covert and sometimes illegal tactics they used to keep the scandal in front of journalists after the government and drug companies worked to bury it. The film also tracks how survivors were treated by British society in the decades after the settlements, and how many of the same fights over recognition and support continued well into their adult lives. It is a case study in how long institutional accountability can take to arrive, if it arrives at all.