Writer-director-star Nadine Crocker’s tour-de-force of confessional filmmaking dissects mental health struggles with the raw authenticity of a true survivor. Convinced she’s fated to walk the same troubled path as her father, Dean (Crocker) suffers a major mental health episode and is committed to a rehabilitation facility. Once confined, Dean shudders through the agonies of recovery, and bravely comes out the other side armed with a defense against the darkness, summed up in one word: Continue.
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00:00You
00:07What happened
00:12I just don't want the life. I have sometimes
00:17I'm really lucky to be alive
00:19I
00:24Don't belong here not crazy
00:27Just sad what would be your plan if you were released I have some stuff that I need to work through
00:45Go get drunk
00:48I'm not easy to be with I'm moody and mean
00:55And I have gotten so good at screwing things up
01:00Hey
01:02Wherever you go I go
01:13Do you think that you're the only person who knows loss
01:18You
01:20It's a much scarier choice to choose to live
01:25Get old
01:28Suffer
01:34But at least we're alive this we didn't give up
01:47You