A matter of the mind

This documentary attempts to shed some light into the dark corners of mental illness, a disease that affects millions of Americans each year. There are many misconceptions about the illness itself, and little understanding of the people who suffer from it, what the world is like. The documentary focuses on a group of mentally-ill patients at a halfway house in St. Paul, Minnesota. The programs treats them as human beings, not as case studies. The producer interviews no the doctors or the counselors at this halfway house, but the patients. We see their lives from their own perspective and the programs follows some of them outside to see how they fare and how society looks at them, and, why they are afraid of society. The power of the program is in its ability to allow us to understand the mentally ill and their illness.