Tommy Vines

A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her.

When William's girlfriend Cassandra is seemingly abducted by an extra-terrestrial force, he starts to succumb to a madness. Haunted by the night that she disappeared, and flooded with nightmares of her possessed by some celestial creature. William's mind begins to break, and he is visited by a being just wanting to go home.

In 1900, Sigmund Freud began treating a 17-year old girl he called "Dora." Her parents brought her to therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual assault. Freud's account of his sessions with Dora was the only major case history he published of a female patient. Intercutting his published text with a scripted version told from Dora's point of view, Hysterical Girl revisits this landmark case. Woven throughout are several decades of cinema, Congressional hearings, and media coverage. What emerges is a portrait of the grip that Freud’s theory of hysteria has had on popular culture over the past century and into the present day.