
“Shaped by others. Searching for self.”
Amnesia explores how our identity is shaped under the influence of those around us, using cannabis consumption as an example. The documentary seeks to understand why some people start using it, what it brings them, and how their environment shapes their behaviors. By giving voice to different profiles, it highlights how each individual confronts their own reality.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.