35-year old Jill Treadwell has her bipolar under control until she is laid off from her job at a Contemporary Art Museum, losing her health insurance and medications. After her unemployment benefit amount is determined, she has no choice but to pack up her apartment and move in with her mother and her mother's new husband. As her medications dwindle away, she begins to head down a dark path of depression and mania that leads to self-medication with drugs and alcohol. The description of the symptoms of mental illness is rendered with alarming accuracy as she hits bottom with a life changing DUI. After her arrest, her depression carries her into an inhumane place of despair and hopelessness. After a thwarted attempt at suicide, we follow her tragic and comedic struggles to find health insurance with her pre-existing bipolar disorder, meeting a motley crew of her friends and supporters along the way. Her "journey" starts with the vivid and wild friends she has when she is not mentally well

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