Build a movie plot around this: What happens the day before Susanna's release? Susanna breaks her hand and confronts Lisa
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"Maybe I really was crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted."Susanna is a young woman of eighteen, and her life isn't exactly what a "normal' eighteen-year-old's is suppose to be like. To her, any kind of sex is casual, and it doesn't matterwho she does it with or when, as long as she gets it.At graduation she falls asleep, proving she has little interest for the norms of prize-givings or anything to do with what's accepted bysociety. At her father's birthdayparty she is under dressed and is of course moaned at by her hypocritical mother. Herewe learn that her parent's friends are just as false as what is accepted by everyone. Andthen it becomes clear that Susanna has been sleeping with her mother's friend's husband.This drives her to try to commit suicide with aspirin and a bottle of vodka to get it all down.At the E.R. she claims that she doesn't have bones in her wrists anymore, and tells thepsychiatrist at home that the bones grew back by the time she got to the hospital.So she is shipped off to a local mental institution and put in the ward for women only. Here she meets a multitude of people who really do have problems: an anorexic, a girlwho burned herself as a child, a lesbian (at the time was thought of as a mental disorder), a bulimic, and her roommate, a compulsive liar, to top it alloff.The ward is run by Nurse Valerie Owens, who is very clever, but is unable to become adoctor due to her race. All the nursing staff and the patients are kept marginally saneby Valerie, and she and Susanna have a complex relationship. Susanna isquestionably diagnosed with having a Borderline Personality Disorder.Things really get started when the sociopath run away patient, Lisa, returns to the ward and turns Susanna's world upside down and inside out. She is a force to bereckoned with---she is magnetic, rebellious, doesn't take her meds and is unhealthyfor the other patients as she breaks down their self-esteem regularly. Due to the factthat her last best friend, Jamie,...