When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.
Direction
Brea films from her bed—literally redefining directorial presence.
Production
Crowdfunded by patients doctors told to 'just exercise.'
Director
Jennifer Brea
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brea helped spark the #MillionsMissing movement; this film basically built the ME/CFS visibility infrastructure from a mattress.
Ron Davis, Whitney's father, is a Stanford geneticist who pivoted his Nobel-caliber career to crack ME/CFS—still racing against his son's decline.
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