Pure O follows the story of Purity Oglander, a singer in a Seattle Underground band, circa 1992. She is talented, she has lots of friends, she is on the cusp of tremendous success. But beneath her jubilation, her mind is betraying her. Purity suffers from a variation of OCD called Pure OCD. Pure OCD is marked by distressing intrusive thoughts and mental images that violate one’s own value/moral system. This can be anything. Examples of imagery include, unmotivated extreme violence, recurrent doubt over one’s sexual orientation, or impulses revolving around blasphemous and sacrilegious themes. Pure O explores the fear, the isolation and misery that those with mental illness commonly experience. The societal stigma, the fear of honest disclosure to family and friends, we follow Purity’s journey from fear to self-acceptance and onward towards recovery.