The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on trying to live.
Direction
Ratner's patient, non-exploitative gaze earns every moment.
Writing
Regina's narration weaponizes dark humor as survival tool.
Director
Rebbie Ratner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released amid 2016's mental health TikTok boom, it predated the sanitized 'self-care' era with something messier and truer.
Ratner spent seven years filming; the final cut's 87 minutes required destroying literal years of footage—a brutal editorial mirror of Regina's own editing of self.
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