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The French psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan asks the novelist Marguerite Duras if she has used a psychiatry manual to document herself when writing, and if the character in her novel is crazy, since she speaks with her body of a primordial fear and of something she lacks. This conversation and the images of women that Dr. Charcot diagnosed as hysterical in 1862, serve as a framework for the director Tamara García Iglesias to elaborate this poetic essay that subverts the representation of the sick woman and criticizes a society that has not wanted to understand women but to project its fantasies and perpetuate them through photography, scientific literature and film. (RS)