A Mother’s Pain

Content : How a mother’s madness can destroy her daughter’s life…

When loving to the point of obsession becomes a terrifying reality…

Seventeen-year-old Perl Wagner is famous: every illness seems to want her. She juggles hospital visits organised by her mother with the life of a high school student. Her greatest dream? To finally get her diploma.

During a trip to the hospital, Perl meets Eddy, a boy from her school who quickly brings her into his group of friends. Usually a loner, she discovers friendship for the first time—and for once, Perl allows herself to be happy.

But everything falls apart when her mother decides she is too sick to continue her studies and must, at all costs, undergo surgery…

A chilling psychological thriller inspired by the true story of Clauddine Blanchard and Gypsy Rose, exploring Münchhausen by proxy syndrome.