WHY?

Most women don't know what awaits them in this phase of life because their mothers did not talk about it, and society doesn't consider it an important medical problem.

Nevertheless, 75% of women experience symptoms, and 25% are plagued with severe menopausal symptoms that interfere with their ability to work, have fun, sleep, and function in a family.

Hot flashes are just the tip of the iceberg - mental health problems such as depression and anxiety are also common and debilitating.

ENTERTAINING!

We all need comic relief, especially when talking about such heavy topics. Our protagonist takes care of this!

As one of The Black List readers stated: "Kinga's journey offers a fabulously wry and often, in the best way, shocking sense of humor." She is the type of person who can laugh and cry at the same time, suffer, but also see the funny side of situations. To quote the coverage again: "She weathers her medical indignities with a wit that amuses but doesn't undercut the seriousness of what we're seeing."

SUPPORTIVE!

We would like this film to be validating for all the menopausal women who are made to feel that their health and well-being don't matter after they are past their childbearing years.

ENLIGHTENING!

We would like the movie to enlighten people - younger women, men, anyone who doesn't know about the realities of menopause - and to shed light on the shortcomings of the medical establishment in treating menopausal women.

It's not fair that women are taken by surprise about what the midlife change entails, and that men are clueless and sometimes unsupportive. It's also not fair that there hasn't been any large-scale research on menopausal treatment in the past two decades, and doctors routinely deny women hormone treatment due to a controversial, outdated study linking it to breast cancer.

To this end, Kinga's story follows the "usual" progression of events for women who enter menopause with difficult symptoms: various problems (depression, anxiety, blood pressure spikes, insulin resistance, digestive issues, heart palpitations) emerge... doctors don't connect it to menopause... she ends up in ER. Then she does her own research and figures out that it is menopause... requests hormone replacement therapy... she is denied, and she has to fight for it. All this surrounded by the usual midlife stressors: aging parents and conflicts with increasingly independent teenage children.