A cancer patient undergoes her treatment and struggles to distract herself from the pain by remembering conversations with her ex-husband.

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.

Having been hospitalized for a long time, a young girl finds herself surrounded by people who cannot understand the strangeness of her illness. After her friend visits her, she must accept that her relationships may never be the same, and that her expectations that tether her to a life outside of the hospital may be very different from the disappointing reality.

A patient attends regular sessions with his psychiatrist but stubbornly refuses to tell the doctor his true thoughts.

A nurse tries to do everything to help her patient, a woman going through shock therapy, even if it interferes with the nurse's relationship with her boyfriend.

In the first personal plural, a psychiatric ward patient describes their day-to-day routines and thoughts while their life slowly becomes easier.

A woman's chronic illness stirs up long-suppressed conflict within her family. As she helplessly listens to her husband and brother-in-law argue about the best treatments, she wishes she could be there to defend her troubled husband.

In present-day New York City, a strained lawyer writes to a stranger, an eating disorder doctor, in hopes of confronting the man about an overheard phone conversation.

A man who has struggled with chronic pain throughout his life begins an expensive new treatment from a mysterious New York City doctor that has a more sinister way of healing patients of their pain.

Faced with inexplicable suffering in a locked ward of a mental hospital, a young woman must choose whether to give up or live life on her own terms.