ON THE EDGE

Alexia, a young woman with a strong and idealistic character, arrives as a trainee nurse at a psychiatric hospital and meets Joëlle, the head nurse, who teaches her the job. Alexia is moved by the anger of Mila, a 20-year-old patient who feels like she shouldn’t be there. Despite Joëlle’s warnings about keeping her distance from patients, Alexia approaches Mila and puts all her effort into trying to get her out of there.

„The filmmakers’ aim is to question the conditions in which psychiatric patients are admitted, cared for and treated. Desperately overworked care teams often struggle to provide adequate support, prioritising the most urgent cases and finding themselves wrestling with ethical and emotional dilemmas.”
Aurore Engelen, cineuropa