Taking her mother's mental illness as its point of departure, Mindy Faber's DELIRIUM exposes the historical relationship between women and madness with wit and sensitivity. Documentary footage of her mother is seamlessly interlaced with experimental, performance and archival images to shed light on the complexity of female hysteria. It shows that it is often women who do not conform to traditional social roles who are labeled "mad" and that women's reactions of violence, anger and depression are frequently not expressions of madness but rather sane responses to abhorrent situations.