Sabina Spielrein, a highly intelligent and troubled patient, is hospitalized under Dr. Carl Jung's care. Her childhood, marked by a violent father, has left her with deep-seated psychological issues. As she becomes a patient of Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure, her complex past begins to unravel.

A Dangerous Method
The film explores the profound intellectual and personal bond between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, tracing the development of psychoanalysis as they forge a complex and groundbreaking partnership.