Allgood

Steve Allgood cold plunges. He drinks three liters of water a day. He has two beautiful kids and is married to his high school sweetheart. His life is a picture of good health.

He also has terminal brain cancer.

At the age of 28, Buck Allgood was informed he had a tumour the size of a golfball on his brain stem and spinal cord, and that it would kill him in a matter of months. Faced with that unshakeable prognosis, he lost the will to live.

This is the intimate story of the mental health toll of a terminal diagnosis, and how the innovative use of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy can restore a passion for living, especially when no one can truly predict a cancer patient’s length of survival.

Directed by Claire Ward (Canada)