When the Mind Takes Flight

A young woman embarks on a transformative journey across continents and timelines, based on a true story of real events. It begins with her college years in small-town America, where a psychedelic experience shatters the boundaries of her reality and sets her on an unpredictable path. As she follows a deeper, unspoken calling, she navigates surreal encounters and philosophical quests, confronting intense moments of vulnerability, including detention in Paris and confinement in a psychiatric ward. In a separate timeline, she processes these experiences through an ayahuasca ceremony in Brazil, where symbolic rituals of release unfold, and through enigmatic interactions with a figure who challenges her understanding of herself and her past. As she drifts between the mundane and the extraordinary, her identity fractures and reforms, leading her to grapple with profound questions about purpose, truth, and the fragile line between insight and delusion. Told through a non-linear narrative that mirrors her fragmented psyche, the screenplay explores the tension between inner worlds and societal expectations, capturing one woman’s relentless search for meaning in the chaos of existence.

[script completed at 102 pages]