DE

2007

52 min

Finished

A Prison of My Own

Die Gedanken sind frei

Directing: Saara Aila Waasner

Synopsis

Forty-four year old Susanne is incapable of acting spontaneously. For the past 25 years her thoughts and actions have been dictated by psychological compulsions. When her mother found the situation too much for her to cope with, and the medication and periods of hospitalisation did her no good, a large family decided to take her in. Twenty years have passed since then. Susanne talks with astonishing self-irony and sensitive self-awareness about her illness, what triggered it, and whether she has the courage to be completely well again.