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Delirium

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Delirium

When a troubled young woman and an undocumented immigrant seek refuge in the home of an elderly woman suffering from late onset schizophrenia, bonds are formed, reality is skewed, and people end up dead. 

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Gene (Jill Larson) is a highly intelligent former chemical engineer struggling with the delusions that come with late onset schizophrenia. Her family wants to put her in a care facility, but she refuses to go. Since the death of her wife Kathy, she spends much of her time alone and afraid of threats that may or may not be real. Her mental health is deteriorating faster than anyone truly understands.

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Ryan (Kayden Bryce), a social outcast with addict parents and unmedicated ADHD, elicits the help of her kind-hearted coworker Oso (Omar Aragones) to score some Adderall so she can make it through work and school without a total mental collapse. The deal should be simple, a quick exchange with a former sleezy coworker named Jimmy (Bryan Barron), but nothing can really be that easy. The trio suddenly finds themselves hunted by Ghost (Jasper Cole), a dangerous drug kingpin hellbent on revenge. 

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They race through the woods until they spy Gene's house with the lights still on. Ryan knows Gene, and for some reason Ryan knows Gene will open her door for them. Once inside, they start to wonder if they're truly safe behind the security-guarded walls of this unstable woman's home. 

Fear has become pervasive in our culture: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of the unknown, fear of what we don’t understand, fear of being alone, fear of being misunderstood, fear of being unloved. But oftentimes the greatest  threat is fear itself. Human beings will do things out of fear, terrible things. So, what if we turned fear itself into the monster? 

 

-MATT SANTIA & MELINDA BRYCE

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