Thousands of mentally ill people who used to be institutionalized now live in communities across Canada. This hour long documentary directed by Robin Benger, tracks the lives of four such people. An ex-doctor battling suicide, a young woman emerging from the twin horror of rape and abandonment, a 79-year-old man who runs from the memory of Electro-Shock therapy, and a mental patient with schizophrenia who ends up homeless. Falling Through the Cracks is a portrait of a forgotten and dumped population, people who our society has condemned to a shadowy existence of drug dependency and mental deterioration.