Returning from a Catholic retreat, public school teacher Jill Eikenberry picks up a hitchhiker--who repays her hospitality by brutally raping her. Plunged into shame and self-hatred by the incident, she does not report the attack to the police. Only when she becomes pregnant does she tell the authorities, and her employers, what happened. The school board, assuming that Eikenberry's silence was borne of guilt, refuses to believe that she was raped and fires her. This leads to the moment that
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This move is based up the case "ECKMANN v. BD. OF EDUC. OF HAWTHORN SCHOOL DIST." Her's brother's testimony disputing her account of rape: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LWkaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SyoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5487,6902049&dq=jeanne+eckmann+lawsuit&hl=enThe movie does not make any mention at all of the testimony of
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