This intensely revealing biography of writer and clinical psychologist Lucy Daniels expands the documentary form in its freely evocative visualization of Daniels’s early life. Recreated scenes bring a dreamy visual texture to a story told in dark, powerful interviews. Daniels’s access to her earliest memories, in vivid detail, suggests the redemptive possibilities of years of therapy. Raised in a wealthy newspaper family in North Carolina, Daniels lived in a bubble of privilege and family dysfunction, which led to an intractable case of anorexia. During her teens, she was confined to various institutions to treat her illness and, along with other methods, was given electroshock treatments. Surprisingly, her highly acclaimed novels Caleb, My Son and High on a Hill followed the medieval horrors of these years and were written and published when she was still in her twenties. Psychoanalysis meets cinematography in this formally creative and emotionally compelling film.  NK