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A young boy suffering from OCD-like symptoms grapples with self-hatred, bullying, and sexual abuse and frequently flaps his hands and constricts his throat to escape reality. His compulsions and coping mechanisms follow him through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.
A professor becomes obsessed with his daughter's dollhouse, and he crafts its furniture, keeps it neat and organized, and envisions himself inside it, even after his daughter grows up and leaves for college.
A professor finds himself attracted to one of his students, allowing her to skip the final exams - but her resultant grade causes her to lash out at him and reveal harsh truths about his own life that he finds difficult to accept.
A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.
A quasi-reformed stalker worries about the influence of his creepy behaviors on his son.
A young man has been experiencing intense hallucinations for most of his life. When one of his nightmares begins to seem a little too real, he realizes there may be an explanation for these experiences, and it may have something to do with his mother's death.
Unable to control his impulses, a man finds his obsession with women's hair devolving rapidly into cold-blooded murder.
A brilliant young man with an obsession with the Sherlock Holmes series joins an investigation into a series of gruesome murders in New York—but his mysterious motives test the lead detective on the case.
A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.
A young couple obsessed with syntax sets off to meet their favorite author.