Tell Them You Love Me explores the extraordinary story of Anna Stubblefield, an esteemed university professor who becomes embroiled in a controversial affair with Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal man with cerebral palsy. Anna says she unlocked Derrick's mind from his disabled body by teaching him to communicate using a keyboard with a method known as assisted communication. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial that would challenge our perceptions of disability and the nature of consent.