In order to escape from prison, Randle McMurphy feigns insanity and has himself committed. Having become popular with the patients because of his zest for life and his insolence, he takes the lead in a rebellion against the authority exercised by Miss Ratched, the relentless head nurse...

Adapted from Ken Kesey's bestseller, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest describes, with almost documentary precision, the treatments inflicted on patients in the 1960s: overdosed medication, icy showers, electroshock, lobotomy... But this pamphlet against the operations of psychiatric hospitals also questions the meaning of revolt: why must we resist? How far can we oppose?