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

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.

Shortly before WWII, a young girl grows up on the grounds of a mental asylum where her father is Chief of Psychiatry. She experiences sexual assault at the hands of one of the patients who her father has become taken with.

In late 20th century New Orleans, an alcoholic lawyer trades his concerns over his own marital struggles for those of another couple. When a man comes to him hoping to divorce his wife who he believes cheated on him, the lawyer finds a much sadder reality.

A mentally-ill, suicidal man writes letters to different people about prominent memories in his life from his birth onwards—some nostalgic, some thankful, some apologetic, and some confessional.

A man who has lived in a house for recovering mental health patients for a decade grapples with the prospect of finally leaving.

In the 1950s, a middle-aged talent agent from New York City stays on a farm in Iowa. While there, the man has a conversation with a woman who escaped from a psychiatric hospital who changes his perspective on his health and lifestyle.

A girl cares for her mentally unwell sister. When their family therapist passes away, the girl must help her sister grieve.

A middle-aged woman is forced to grapple with her son’s mental illness and her partner’s disinterest. While she tries to accommodate everyone else, the woman begins to lose herself.

An institutionalized man struggling to overcome his paralyzing paranoia hates his weekly "days out" in the city. But during a particularly turbulent two weeks, the realization of his worst fears in the outside world possibly bring about an improvement in his condition.