On the shores of Lake Como, an association for mental health meets once a week to write a periodical. Everyone brings their story, their ups and downs, their tragedies and solidarity. Patients, psychiatrists, and photojournalists from all over the world offer a unique view on mental health, its social implications, hospitals, treatments, support for families, and the regulations governing the sector.

Director's note

The stigma of mental illness is more alive than ever. Sometimes even in the patient himself, who feels marginal and dangerous. "In the Mind's Garden" wants to document mental distress in Italy and abroad, through the testimonies of patients, photojournalists, psychiatrists, and journalists, who tell a still uncomfortable truth. And then we meet the association "Oltre il Giardino" of Como, a group of people - patients or volunteers, it doesn't matter! - which opens the doors to a glimpse of everyday life: they meet to write their periodical, but they reveal themselves without shadows with a huge desire for redemption and not for commiseration. Diamonds emerge behind the rough stones.