Reflections

LOGLINE.
Scared of becoming a reflection of her schizophrenic father, a young woman must accept and deal with her mental illness or risk losing everything and becoming her most feared demon, her father.
Synopsis
KENENA, a young schizophrenic, takes to writing as a form of therapy for her mental illness. She reflects on her very first mental episodes as she writes. In this episode she wakes up to voices coming from her bathroom, she opens her bathroom door to find her father, KAMSI (30) in his younger self and her younger self, Kenena (15) in her bathroom.
Kenena is torn between what’s real and what’s not, SAM her Fiancé knocks on the bathroom door just in time to snap her back to reality. Her episodes continue, this time becoming more real and threatening. In a full-blown mental attack Kenena finds herself on top of SAM with a bloody bedside lamp, she had it him on the head with it. Seeing she couldn’t run away or hide from it anymore, Kenena decides to seek help from DR. Ann, a psychiatrist, who diagnoses mental illness as schizophrenia. She tells her It has no cure and assures her even though there was no cure, she could gain control of it and manage it.
Kenena finishes reflecting on her writing as she joins SAM in bed. The door bell goes off, Kenena goes to get it. Standing in the door way is a weak and battered Kamsi. Her episode hasn’t stopped, but now it is no longer threatening, she is in control. SAM reassures her of his support as he stands beside her holding her hand. Kenena closes the door to their nightmares.