Mental — Season 1, Episode 1: Big Fish
Drama • 25 min • 1 season, 8 episodes • ★ 3.8/10
Episode synopsis
Nico is a girl who is unable to fit in at school because she has constant anxiety attacks and her only thought is to leave for London to attend a music school. During the class performance she has a hallucination and for this reason she is taken to the Argo psychiatric clinic. At first she thinks her stay will be short, but soon she realizes that it won't be. Nico runs into other kids who, like her, have "something wrong".
About Mental
Nico is a 16 year old girl who has in her head a chaos in which she can no longer orient herself, made of anxiety attacks, visions and voices that speak to her. After a hallucinatory episode, she is taken in charge by a psychiatric clinic with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and there she meets Michele, Emma and Daniel. The four boys form a group and face together a difficult, but fundamental, path towards self-knowledge and self-acceptance.