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This episode tells the story of Joanne, who six years ago had a seizure. Since then she has been in a wakeful coma. Doctors believe Joanne is in a permanent vegetative state, awake but unaware, and that her smiles and reactions are simply reflexes. But her parents are not so sure. They worry that she might be "locked in": trapped inside an unresponsive body, hearing and understanding everything but unable to communicate. Her parents are convinced...
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English
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This episode focuses on Craig, who was 17 when a car hit him as he crossed a road late at night. He suffered a massive head injury and was in a deep coma for three weeks. When he awoke, it became clear that the brain damage had left him with a completely different personality. Five years after his accident, the new Craig is an angry young man. He has no control over his emotions, and his violent mood swings are wrecking his and his family's lives....
3) Broken
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English
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Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
4) Waiting
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Hindi
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Tara is a fiercely independent woman whose life turns upside down after her husband Rajat meets with an accident. At the hospital, she meets Shiv, an elderly man whose wife of 40 years has been in the coma for eight months. The two strike an unlikely friendship that helps them cope with their grief.
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Italiano
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A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is saved by the young doctor Pallido and reawakens to life....
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English
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When tragedy strikes Chief of Surgery Charlie Harris, his fiancee and fellow surgeon, Alex, races to save his life. Now in a coma, the doctor wanders the halls of the hospital in 'spirit' form, watching while Alex and the rest of the staff fight to keep their patients and hope alive.