Aspects of Sylvia Plath’s life are collated with factual accounts of people who were for years incarcerated in mental institutions. The narrator’s obsession with Plath disturbs her sleep. For a time, the American poetess worked as a receptionist at the psychiatric unit of the Hospital of Massachusetts, indexing the dreams of the mentally ill in order to draw inspiration for her writings. The narrator, shut away in her house for days on end, transcribes the inmates’ statements. Their imaginings become a jumble with her reality, with that of Plath and the mentally ill. (The statements are sourced from a documentary by the authoress). Padding around them is a queen, all nine lives intact.

Gavriilidis 2013, 112 p.