Safe
In the 21st century nobody will be… Safe.
Dramapollutionquarantinechemicalallegoryhousewifemedicinesuburbiafemale protagonistallergydiseasepsychiatristillness
A deeply unsettling portrait of a woman's physical and psychological dissolution in suburban America, where illness becomes both literal and metaphorical.
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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