
Writer/director Paul Maunder's second drama after his award-winning Going Up North for a While is a portrait of a woman's mental health crisis. In part one Julie (Denise Maunder) is haunted by her birth mother's breakdown. Her inner monologue narrates events; Julie hopes marriage and a job will "cure" her, and falls pregnant. After a traumatic delivery, she suffers an acute episode and is admitted into care. Part two takes place in a psychiatric hospital where drugs, electroconvulsive therapy and art therapy were standard treatments at the time. Maunder undertook research at Auckland's Kingseat psychiatric hospital.

as Child

as Lewis

as Mrs Proctor

as Dorothy

as Birth mother

as Barbara

as Mother

as Occupational Therapist

as Mrs Priddle

as Child

as Mrs McPherson

as Library Assistant

as Patient

as Father

as Lecturer

as Drama Teacher

as Nurse Lipskey

as Social Worker

as Mrs Manaia

as Dr Marshall (psychiatrist)

as Mrs Flowers

as Mrs Jenkin

as Doctor

as Nurse

as Julie

as Mrs Walker

as Pat

as Nurse

as Nurse

as Husband

as Sister

as Librarian

as Janice

as Dr Rennie

as Cecily

as Liz

as Receptionist