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Mindy Alper is a 56-year-old artist who works as an agent at a top gallery in Los Angeles. Severe anxiety, psychosis, and profound depression led to her being hospitalized and treated with electroconvulsive therapy, leaving her unable to speak for ten years. Her intense self-awareness enabled her to create a lifetime's work, expressing her emotional state with powerful psychological precision. Through interviews, reenactments, the creation of an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall paper bust of her beloved psychiatrist, and an examination of her childhood artwork, we learn how she emerged from darkness and isolation into a life filled with love, trust, and support.