Chasing Victory is the story of William Victory, a young man struggling with a severe learning disability who forms a relationship with a brilliant psychiatrist named Julia Perlman. When Dr. Perlman makes a pharmacological breakthrough that can potentially change William's life, as well of the lives of the countless individuals suffering with learning disabilities around the world, she is initially euphoric. Yet when you combine a desperate patient with a lack of FDA approval, the unthinkable can, and does occur.