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At age 17, filmmaker Laurel Chiten was in a terrible car accident. Months later, her neck began jerking out of control. Doctors finally figured out that Chiten had dystonia: a neurological disorder that forces your muscles to twist into abnormal, often painful, movements or postures. When you have dystonia, you tell your body to do one thing, but your brain tells it to do something else, as if your brain has a mind of its own. In TWISTED, Chiten's narration connects the stories of other dystonia sufferers. Pat Brogan, a basketball coach and triathlete who developed dystonia after a bike accident; Shari Tritt, whose dystonia affects her whole body, and Remy Campbell, an artist who gambled on a radical form of brain surgery: and won. Together, these individuals try to answer the question, when you are trapped inside your body, what will set you free?
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