Freeing Teresa

Freeing Teresa is a true story about an activist who tries to stop her powerful siblings from putting their disabled sister into a nursing home. She fails. And then must rescue her.

Franke James immediately objected when she heard her siblings' plan to put their sister with Down syndrome into a nursing home. "What about Teresa's human rights?" But she was told that Teresa Heartchild had lost her right to decide where she lived. She had been declared "not capable" by a social worker. The other siblings, acting as her "guardians," insisted they had all the decision-making power and put Teresa into a nursing home. But Teresa told Franke she didn't want to live there. Franke put a team together and helped Teresa get discharged. That's when all hell broke loose. And so, the two sisters had to stand together -- against their siblings, the medical system and the police -- to defend Teresa's right to be free.