Spanning decades and genres, the series will share the stories of Ezer Hospital’s doctors, staff, patients, and their families – often heartbreaking and sometimes terrifying. 

It will also tackle the larger theme of how society views mental health – from an era when patients were “sent away” to dungeon-like facilities and subjected to isolation, cold water baths, and regular beatings…Followed by a radical “scientific” approach that relied on drugs, electroshock, and forced lobotomies…And finally, into the modern age of medical and psychological intervention.

At its deepest level, Numbers of the Damned will explore universal themes regarding the human condition – love and loss, genius and insanity, tragedy and hope - within the setting of a mental institution.