10 years ago, life for William was a wonderful adventure, full of friends, family, opportunity and potential. A masters student and a budding musician, his future was bright and hopeful. But when a new wireless system is installed at his work that seems to have an adverse effect on his health, what starts as a bad reaction to his immediate surroundings soon becomes a lifelong battle against the wider environment. Such is the agony of his increasing sensitivity to electricity and radiation, an illness known as “electrosensitivity”, William withdraws to a remote cabin in the Swedish wilderness, the furthest he can get from technology. Hidden in a foil encased bedroom, underneath the many layers of copper lined fabric that shield him from the radiation that makes him sick, William speaks openly to Marie Liden, a Swedish filmmaker, whose own mother suffered the same illness. In intimate interviews with William and the few people who visit: his parents, the priest and medical practitioners, ‘Electric Malady’ is a modern folk-horror tale that confronts us with the reality of living with an illness that modern science can’t diagnose, but from which over 300,000 people in Sweden continue to suffer.