Mark Kik struggles through wheels within wheels to pronounce the base of her problem. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. Then a relapse plunges Virginia rearward into the excruciating 'Snake Pit'. Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a administrative district mental hospital...and can't cite how she got there. The asylum stave are not demonized, but fearfulness, ignorance and regimentation move Virginia in a government of misery, as pipesmoking Dr.