No Limiar do Pensamento / On the Verge of Thought

2018, 18 minutes

A mum must decide whether to let her schizophrenic teenage son go to university or not.

Dinis, like most of the teens his age, wishes to be independent and go to college, to escape his overprotective mum. But months before he can do it, he has a psychotic outbreak. Madalena suffers a lot seeing her son being victim of prejudice and the label of schizophrenic from friends and even family. She is a nurse, however helping others is a task much easier than helping her son. She wants Dinis to have a normal and healthy life, but by realizing the persistent stigma in society and her own impotence against mental illness, she falls in a spiral of depression, from which she can only set herself free when she will understand that to be able to take care of her son, first she has to take care of herself and that to let him have a normal life means she has to let him go to college. But will it be possible to have a normal life with a mental illness?



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