Coming Home is an unsentimental but heartfelt study of the plight of the wounded Vietnam vet. In 1968, Marine Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) leaves his wife Sally (Jane Fonda) behind when he's called to combat. Sally wants to do her part for the war effort, so she volunteers to work at a local veteran's hospital. Here she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), who is paralyzed from the waist down. Their friendship eventually blossoms into love, setting the scene for a climactic confrontation with the returning Capt. Hyde, who though physically intact has been emotionally ruined by his war experiences. Coming Home secured Academy Awards for Fonda, Voight, and scripters Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones and Nancy Dowd (who wrote the original story upon which the film was based).