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Paper Fortunes

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Based on a true story. A disgraced nurse. A grieving socialite. A mentally challenged young woman. One baby.

Chicago, 1937. The Elizabeth Sullivan Home for Destitute and Degenerate Women is a crumbling Victorian mansion on the city's South Side where women go when they have nowhere else to turn.

Marian Walters arrives at the Home as a disgraced nurse hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she is drawn to Opal Olson, a mentally challenged girl who turns up at the Home unable-or unwilling-to explai...