Synopsis
Anorexia, refusing to eat until death by starvation is a deliberateselfdestruction in public and the most symptomatic of alldiseases in our world of exuberance and abundance. The Thin Girls is not about models, fashion, celebrities orfame. It is about crying for help. It is about and with some girlsnext door, about their agony, their struggle, their life sufferingfrom Anorexia. The film tries to give insight to their motivesand the conditions of the soul, that lead to such a terrible selfdestruction. The filmic encounter with the women starts in an hospital for eating disorders. Some ofthe women attend the clinic for short, some for a very long time, some will give up therapy, some willbe dismissed, some will come again and again and again. For all of them the disease will be lifetime companion.The illness varies in cause, pattern, in degree and in progress. The affected women differin family background, in strenght, in self consciousness, and in how they cope with the disease. In common they all have a hungry soul in a starving body .
