Journalist Nelly Bly takes an assignment to get herself sent to the Blackwell Island Insane Asylum, exposing the treatment there and resulting in reforms by the state of NY. Her experiences are candid and very sad. One of the saddest things is how easily she was committed and had she not had others on the outside to arrange her release, it is likely she would have remained there as hopelessly insane (an act which fooled everyone she met - talk about preconceptions). What a courageous woman!