Inspired by true events, college sophomore Clemence Miller is coming home to the suburbs and a bedroom in her family's basement. After dropping out of school with a newly diagnosed mental illness, she now faces the challenges of bipolar disorder, the responsibilities of adulthood, and her damaged relationships with family and friends. Clemence struggles to figure out what it means to heal without driving everyone around her… well, crazy. As if reckoning with everything and everyone she has taken for granted wasn’t enough, Clemence has to wrestle with the thought that on top of it all, she might also just have a really bad personality.
Acting
Alex Heller's self-destructive specificity—she wrote AND lived this
Writing
The rare script that lets a woman be genuinely unlikable
Director
Alex Heller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alex Heller based this on her own bipolar diagnosis and college dropout; her actual parents consulted on the script. Steve Buscemi joined because he loved her short film.
Released in the wave of 'unlikable woman' indie cinema (Fleabag, Shiva Baby), but rarer for treating mental illness as chronic condition rather than third-act transformation.
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