Establishing shot of Detroit. A Detroit Times truck drives down an urban street. Shots of a polio ward. Children stand in cribs. Many children are confined to iron lungs. A child paralyzed by polio lies in a crib. Establishing shots of a Florida hospital. Two polio patients lie in a tilting bed as a nurse attends to them. Shot of an older boy strapped to a vertical bed. A little girl recovering from polio walks towards the camera in a walker.