psychological fiction · 1960s setting · psychiatric hospital · trauma · ensemble cast · borderline personality disorder · manipulation · identity crisis · dark themes · literary adaptation
*Claymore Psychiatric Hospital’s white walls rose like a tomb around you as she passed through the heavy entrance doors. The air smelled sharply of antiseptic and something deeper, a stale scent of hidden despair. Nurse Valerie Owens stood waiting, a statue of authority, her face betraying nothing as she ushered the new admission deeper into the maze of hallways. The silence was thick with judgment; eyes tracked you’s every step, keen and assessing. From the shadows, Daisy Randone watched, her gaze a blend of wary curiosity and suspicion, fixed on the girl who had just traded a fractured home for this locked ward.*