Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

197591 min6.3 / 10

A claustrophobic, melancholic portrait of a woman's descent into undiagnosed mental illness, told with clinical precision and intimate despair.

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

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