Uroboros

1950's Ireland. Moira and her boyfriend Eamonn spend their glorious last Sunday on the beach. They are on the eve of leaving their small town lives for something bigger. A new life together in the city. Moira's parents, staunch Catholics and conservative to the bone, disapprove of Moira's carefree attitude and ambitions. "She's a handful", her father decides. "She's lost her bloody mind". With that, and with only a doctor's signature, Moira is committed to a mental hospital. There, Moira finds that the hospital is an overcrowded prison for the unwanted. It's wards inhabit hundreds of poor souls, lying in piles on the floor and sharing two to three per bed. The conditions of the hospital are inhumane. It's a hellish nightmare. Moira is put to sleep against her will and wakes up after an unknown amount of time to a commotion. A woman contorts as Nurses attempt to hold her down. Moira uses this distraction to make a run for it. After navigating through the snake-like corridors she clears the building by ramming a laundry cart through a door. Finally free, Moira sprints out of the hospital grounds toward the woods beyond. The sun begins to rise and the sound of seagulls is heard. She clears the woods and crosses a field until she reaches the cliffs. She hears voices, looks below to the beach. There below, is a young man and a woman. She realises what she sees is her past. She sees herself. Before the nightmare began.