The Raging Moon

Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a 24-year-old working-class man and amateur soccer player with a passion for life. All this changes when he suddenly finds himself struck down by an incurable degenerative disease. He makes a self-imposed exile to a church-run home for the disabled, believing that it is best for his immediate family to forget about him the way he is now. He gets to know a fellow patient, Jill Matthews, a woman from a wealthy family, also a wheelchair user due to polio. The two begin to fall in love and admit their feelings for each other