Mental (RaiPlay)

Mental is a french teen-drama web-series, based on the Finnish series Sekasin. Mental depicts the events of a group of children with psychiatric problems, struggling not only with their own pathologies but also with the feelings, mistakes, questions and passions of adolescence, which complicate life outside and inside the hospital.

A coming of age where emotions, desires, vices and the desire to split the world typical of sixteen are multiplied to the cube. Between hallucinations, drug addiction, self-harm and the desire to escape away from everything, children will find, however, something able to make them feel good for the first time: a group of friends ready for anything. A portrait of adolescence, however extreme, universal. Because, after all, who at 16 has not felt at least a little crazy?

The protagonist is Nico, a 16-year-old girl who has a chaos in her head in which not even she can orient herself: continuous anxiety attacks, visions, voices that speak to her... After a strong hallucinatory episode Nico is taken into care by a psychiatric clinic with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

There she meets those who will be travel companions on a difficult, but fundamental, path of knowledge and self-acceptance: Michele, a borderline drug addict with a bulky father that they do not let him see, Emma, a self-harming anorexic, glitter expert, master of manipulating others, even doctors. She is obsessed with jealousy for her boyfriend who is out in the "real world". And then there is Daniel, a talkative bipolar, convinced that he has no problem: even the cast on his leg is for him just a way to keep him good, yet another attempt by doctors to control him or make him mad.