Bipolar disorder affects an estimated 5.7 million people in the United States, and this film hands the microphone to people who live with it, shot in a style modeled on support-group meetings rather than a clinical interview set. Diagnosed men and women describe what the swing actually feels like, from the euphoric highs to the depressions that follow, and what it costs to keep a job, a marriage, or a routine while riding it. There is no narrator, no psychiatrist, no textbook explanation of neurotransmitters or medication classes; the people on camera do that work themselves, comparing notes on what helped and what made things worse. The film treats the illness as something you learn by hearing enough individual accounts stack up, rather than by being told a diagnosis. It won a Star Award at the 2011 Indie Gathering and a Merit Award at that year's Accolade Competition. The result is closer to an oral history than a medical documentary, aimed at people newly diagnosed or trying to understand someone who is.