Storyville: Locked In: Breaking the Silence - Storyville

Film-maker Xavier Alford talks to other people who have Guillain-Barre syndrome as he attempts to come to terms with being diagnosed as having the condition, which the director had been hiding from family and close friends. He is confronted with the seriousness of the illness when some of the patients he meets are on the edge of life, locked in their own bodies, completely paralysed and unable to move a single muscle, while their brains remain unaffected