He buys a house on the coast that belonged to a messed-up young woman, Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), who lost the place due to a bureaucratic mixup during a depressive stupor.

NEWYORKER: House of Sand and Fog

This nullifies the myths about a lack of will-power or deficiency of character of those who can suffer the gamut from major depression to the terrible world of depressive stupor.

ECONOMIST: Dead set against