An-an's father knew that she would be unable to use signing to communicate with most people, and that gestures and grunts only elicited odd looks. Hoping to save her from a repeat of his own experience, he forbade her to learn signing, and instead sent her to a speech pathologist to struggle to learn to make sounds she herself couldn't hear.
5 歲的安安是重度聽障，父親也是聽障，因為發現手語無法與外人溝通、比手劃腳呀呀作聲更引人側目，他不希望孩子步上自己後塵，所以禁止安安學手語。小安安於是被送進醫院，盯著語言治療師的唇形，努力練習著自己聽不到的語言。