head to head

A feature length documentary film following six women who experience blows to their self-image after unexpectedly losing their hair because of Alopecia, Lupus or chemotherapy. Cancer and autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect young women and women of color. Among the subjects is the film’s director, who sets out on a five-year journey to tell their stories while grappling with her own identity and what it means to be authentic. Although they all experience subsequent mental health, relationship, financial, and social impacts, the film’s subjects individually cope and recover from these challenges in dramatically different ways.