One in a hundred people experience a psychotic episode at least once in their lifetime. Very often, it is the first and only such episode that they will ever have. In Germany, as many people are diagnosed with psychosis as they are with diabetes. Yet being open about a psychiatric diagnosis is still not considered socially acceptable.

This film documents the Psychosis Seminar in Potsdam outside Berlin, where everyday people can share their experiences with psychosis. Within the past decade about 100 such seminars have been initiated in Germany. Every seminar is an experiment. There are as many different perspectives as there are people in the room. The seminars, as do those who participated in this film, serve to correct the distorted image of psychological illness in modern society.