Olga Lvoff

Karen Marshall’s body, mind, and heart do not belong to her alone. She shares them with Rosalee, a smart and perky teenager; Timee, a flamboyant, puerile youth, who wears women’s clothing; an old lady, a habitué of museums; and a dozen of others. Karen’s official diagnosis is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Through personal stories, “Busy Inside” delves deeply into DID — a condition that fascinates and puzzles modern psychiatry.

To get acquainted with her deceased dad, whom she never met, a filmmaker follows the traces of him in her mother’s memories and the artifacts that are left behind. Along the way, she writes letters to her father—letters that cannot be sent.