The Sacred Disease
2016-05-21 · 28 min · Not rated
A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet ecstatic throes of the seizure.
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- Erica Scoggins
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- United States of America
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Abby EilandNicole
Rebecca LinesJanet
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