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202672 minPG-13documentary

First Lap Crash

202672 minPG-13documentary

Amina, living with an invisible chronic illness, finds solace in a specially created room by her brother Liam, allowing her to exist beyond her condition.

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Amina, living with an invisible chronic illness, finds solace in a specially created room by her brother Liam, allowing her to exist beyond her condition.

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Amina lives with an invisible chronic illness that has imprisoned her in an exhausted body. To better understand this elusive illness, her brother Liam makes her a room of her own where she can exist as something other than a patient.

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