- For two years, Garcia Roure followed six patients at a hospital in Barcelona as they struggled with serious psychoses - like Javier who has had sound hallucinations and delirium for 20 years about all kinds of cosmic issues. This beautifully shot study shows how society copes with this kind of mental patients.—Int'l Rotterdam Film Festival
- This is the history of five characters, five stories that emerge within the same context of corridors, cells and waiting rooms, of distressed faces and lost looks, of absurd and enigmatic gestures in the context of a large mental health hospital some place within the Barcelonan surroundings. The human scenery and the daily activity of the great hospital center will mark the chronological development of the story. During the period of one year with its four seasons, the lives of five characters will inter-relate, searching for an identical cause: the five, each of different way, endure psychosis. Their extraordinary and devastating experiences opposite to a world that has turned for them incomprehensible and mysterious; the strange perceptions that invade them, the hallucinations and the deliriums that seem real, the titanic effort to conquer his sufferings, for solving the indecipherable puzzle that directs and seizes them; their exceptional intuitions, their emotions and wishes that appear to us undressed, cleared of any convention; the imagination and the fantasies to which they stick as the only possible handhold opposite to their disorder.... Across these personal experiences there will pass the itinerary of this authentic interior trip that we propose to tackle; a trip that has to make us enter towards the Other side, the secret territory where the psychotics live; this Other side that sends us to the origin itself of our most secret conscience, and of our primitive aptitude to be and to be in the world. A trip that has to take us to this secret place in which imagination and desire bloom, and that glimpse, sometimes, the artistic experience which it manages to penetrate the mental health's fragile membrane.—Anonymous
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