IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL

Movie Description:
Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in an Illinois asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He liveda quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, color- ful and sexually provocative. When he died inChicago in 1973, his landladydiscovered in his room 300 paintings some over 10 feet long,and a 15,000- page illustrated novel which told the epic story of the virtuous Vivian Girls,seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against godless, child enslaving men.