I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“When she tried to kill herself, it was just the beginning.”

Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan) is sixteen and living on a psychiatric ward, split between the hospital around her and an imaginary world that feels more real than either. Her parents, Jay (Ben Piazza) and Ester (Lorraine Gary), don't know how to reach her, and her doctor, Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson), tries. Anthony Page keeps the ward and the fantasy close together, showing a girl who invented a refuge and now has to decide what she gives up to leave it.