Documentary

Neiplis, Florida

In 1997, the author’s family illegally emigrates to Florida, to the town of Naples, in search of a better life. They settle in a small two-room apartment, celebrate their first Christmas, and soon the mother starts working as a housekeeper and takes on two full-time jobs. After three years of stress and overwork, the mother experiences her first episode of psychosis. The dream of a new life across the Atlantic becomes a turning point in her mental health. More than twenty years later, as she approaches the age her mother was when her illness began, the filmmaker hopes to find answers in archival material and in conversations with her mother today.