Fragile (film)
2005 film by Jaume Balagueró
Fragile (Spanish: Frágiles) is a 2005 Spanish-British horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró.
Plot
On the Isle of Wight, a train accident on the Island Line means that the main hospital, St. James's, is completely full and unable to take in any more patients. A smaller and older hospital, Mercy Falls, is to be decommissioned, but some of the patients, including those at the hospital's pediatric ward, need to remain at Mercy Falls until there is availability elsewhere. One of the children, Maggie, an orphan suffering from severe cystic fibrosis, tells the night nurse, Susan, that "she" is coming, unnerving her. Another child at the ward, Simon, wakes up with a horrible pain in his leg. He is taken to receive an x-ray, where it is found that his femur has been broken. A doctor asks him how the injury happened, but Simon has no idea.
Susan leaves the hospital on sick leave and Amy Nicholls replaces her. Amy bonds with Maggie as both are orphans.
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