Dennis McDougal

During the early years of Ronald Reagan's Presidency, the former California governor took his disastrous "tough love" policies for the mentally ill -- including the closing of government operated mental institutions -- to the rest of America. His legacy rests in the 2 million plus Americans now behind bars, a full third of whom have been diagnosed mentally ill.

Here is the story of the family of Roy Miller, a wealthy L.A. lawyer who also happened to be Reagan's personal attorney. In the absence of any help, either from the government or adequate private clinics, Miller and his wife raised two schizophrenic sons with catastrophic results. They desperately waded through every quack treatment or cure they could find: bizarre diets, biofeedback, interventions, regression therapy, psychoanalysis and hypnosis. After the elder Miller son commits suicide, matters only accelerate. As their remaining son Michael struggles with his schizophrenia, he secretly fixates on sleeping with his mother. What happens next would rattle Oedipus Rex.