A 15-year-old girl, born in a boy’s body, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.

A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen’s prescribed “short rest” from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice’s Wonderland,…