Mars Entertainment

A documentary following four families struggling to help a loved one with bipolar disorder, one of the most commonly diagnosed and devastating mental illnesses.

Modernize Tailors has been a cornerstone of Vancouver’s Chinatown and fashion scene but it is all coming to an end in 2006.

To the outsider, Mike, Erin, Mary-Jane and Martha appear to have little in common. But they are all living under the shadow of one of the most commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed mental illnesses – Bipolar Disorder.

They say he’s the next Eric Clapton, or Jimmy Hendrix. They say he’ll be the next guitar god. His parents say he has to be in bed by 10.

Award winning journalist Aaron Goodman investigates the legacy of a political wave of disappearances that took place during Sri Lanka’s 30 year civil war.