Conejos Library District

Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.

Follows former war photographer W. Eugene Smith as he travels to Minamata, Japan in 1971 to document the mercury poisoning of local residents resulting from water pollution by a powerful corporation and the complicit government.