Lorenzo's Oil(1992)

1983. "Augusto Odane" (Nolti), an economist of the World Bank, comes to America with his wife, "Mikaela" (Sarandon) and his four-year-old son, "Lorenzo", after serving in the Comoros Islands. A few months later, "Lorenzo" shows the first symptoms of ALD; A fatal hereditary disease that destroys and disables the entire nervous system...