Inspired by true events, Miss Hysteria follows Louise Gleizes,
a destitute young actress wrongfully committed to the infamous Salpêtrière Hospital in 19th-century Paris. To win her freedom, she strikes a dangerous deal with neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, transforming his public lectures on “female hysteria” into
a worldwide phenomenon.

As crowds of Parisian high society, doctors, scientists, artists, and intellectuals (including a young Sigmund Freud) fill the asylum’s lecture hall, Louise achieves the fame she always dreamed of. But the world sees only “the madwoman,” not the respected actress she longs to be.

When Louise realizes she made a deal with the devil and helped condemn thousands of women to the asylum under the diagnosis of “hysteria,” she commits herself to tearing down the stage that once imprisoned her.

Miss Hysteria asks who gets to define madness, who profits from it, and who is erased and forgotten in the process.