In the social drama "Adam's Sake", written and directed by Laura Wandel, we follow the nurse Lucy during one shift in the pediatric emergency department. Lucy, played by Lea Drucker, works in a hospital full of mostly immigrant children, paying special attention to a four-year-old boy, Adam, who is there due to inadequate nutrition and the consequences of malnutrition. Beside the boy is his frightened and confused young mother Rebecca, who loves him and takes care of him in her own way. The pace in the department is hectic and Lucy professionally and promptly solves ongoing problems, but she does not let the room where little Adam is located out of her sight. She tries to explain to the mother that the boy has to eat otherwise she will find herself in a situation where she will lose the right to visits. Adam's arms are tightly wrapped around his mom, but Lucy will still have to tear him out of her arms at some point, because his mother's arms are no longer good for Adam. When all methods are exhausted, Lucy occasionally works outside of protocol, confronting her shiftmate, begging social services for small concessions, and making decisions on her own.

The scenes in which we watch her movement around the department were shot with a handheld camera, which conveys her rhythm and vigor in movement, as well as her dexterity and efficiency in work, but also the fatigue that is catching up to her. However, Lucy doesn't waiver, and she doesn't give up on Adam for one moment. There is no music in the film, but there is a murmur from the waiting room and conversations in different languages of patients seeking and expecting help for their children. In this way, the atmosphere and reality of the situation are conveyed to us. While the film takes place in hospital rooms and corridors, its denouement happens outside the hospital, because Lucy is constrained by hospital rules and knows that the real solution is elsewhere. As much as healthcare, with its norms and rules, serves people and has its purpose, nevertheless, humanity and emotions are important both for the development of the disease and for healing. Lucy knows how to do her job, she knows how to recognize the right moment, she knows how to balance between the system and the patient, she sees the solution even when neither the social services nor her bosses see it, not even us as viewers. Lucy had the task of doing everything in her power, and she fulfilled it, only for Adam's sake.