Panteha Abareshi

In order to prevent further self harming, a young woman is forced to live in a new synthetic body, and must navigate intimacy in a physical form she fundamentally feels disconnected from.

This film is an articulation of the confusion felt around "getting better." Language around illness creates a linear binary of existence, between feeling "better" or "worse"- words which are also connected to notions of "good" and "bad." This piece documents the harrowing process of accepting lifelong sickness.