Description
What happens when the things you crave aren’t food? This revealing documentary follows people living with pica and other compulsive eating behaviours, whose cravings lead them to consume everything from bricks and plaster to books, carpets and hair.
Meet Patrice, who treats her grandmother’s walls like a sweet shop, and Nina, whose appetite for old books is intertwined with comfort and grief. In America, Lisa eats her cats’ fur, while former child model Rebecca struggles with pulling out and eating her own hair. Meanwhile, six-year-old Charlotte’s parents face a daily battle to keep her safe as she chews household materials.
Through intimate personal stories and meetings with specialists, the documentary explores the emotions, sensory experiences and health concerns behind these behaviours—and follows the search for understanding, support and ways to manage the urges.
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