The man with no past.

Date:
2007
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Description

On fourth of December 2005 David Fitzpatrick found himself outside Kings College Hospital with absolutely no recollection of who he was and how he got there. He had suffered a psychogenic fugue which wiped out his entire memory and his identity. Here we follow him as he tries to reconnect with a family he has no recollection of and to try to discover what led to his fugue in the first place. He meets Jonathan Williams at the British Museum and returns to his primary school in Peckham where his old headmaster attempts to jog his memory. From his first days at Kings College Hospital he had dreams about a mysterious woman called 'Boo' whose voice in his memory encouraged him to have her tattoo on his forearm. It later transpires that this woman was his ex-girlfriend, Emma, who he broke up with 6 months before his fugue. The break-up was so traumatic at the time that David briefly became an alcoholic and other aspects of his life fell apart at the same time - could all this have led to the fugue? His plan now is to live life to the full, but he will always be at risk that the fugue could happen all over again.

Publication/Creation

UK : Five, 2007.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Copyright note

Firecracker films

Notes

Broadcast on 22 January, 2007

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