Using a mixture of home movies, archival footage of psychiatric wards, re-enactments, and interviews with their subjects, Light and Saraf have created a complex, moving portrait of women in whom depression, schizophrenia, and multiple personalities coexist with powerful, sometimes inspired levels of creativity.
In their stories of therapy, they mention therapist approaches like “One weekend he told me I could go home if I promised to bake a turkey.
The next weekend I could go home if I promised to mop all the floors.” [4] Throughout their stories, the participants find different ways to return to everyday life.
[5] The film does not openly criticise circumstances that led to mental health issues, or the ways the women were treated.
In December 2013, a man whose DNA linked him to Karen Wong, one of the seven women in the film, was found guilty and convicted for her murder.