This is a story that creeps along the lines of life and death. It is not merely about suicide versus the value of living but appears at society’s capricious construct on the definition of madness.
Veronika, a 24-year-old attractive woman, who seems to have everything in life that most people envies and consider fulfilling suddenly felt a sort of powerlessness and apathy that lured her to suicide by overdosing herself from sleeping pills. With hopes of leaving the world, Veronika presumes that her attempt to die will be a breeze but she wakes up from a coma, finds herself in a notorious lunatic asylum, and has been told by her doctor, Igor, that the pills damaged her heart severely that it could no longer sustain her life for more than five days. But in that ward, she came to grips with what it means to be dying and to be deemed insane. She’s now faced with the prospect of ‘waiting’ for death; a much different approach to what she expected but nevertheless, she will get her initial wish.
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Veronika learns from Zedka that some patients play to be mad in order to execute precisely what they want. She also found companionship in Mari, who suffers from panic attacks but when her husband wanted a divorce, that even when she was cured, she prefers to lie to her doctor and pretends that the attacks have returned. The fear of death also didn’t prevent her from falling in love with Eduard, a schizophrenic person who dreamed of being a painter but his parents didn’t let him achieve his dream. And her interaction with these patients led her to discover different versions of herself that she wasn’t aware that existed and finds it much more compelling and satisfying compared to her old self. She experienced a number of changes in her vision of life and death, in her beliefs, her attitudes and her