Film documents the recovery of schizophrenic Sean Clifton

IT was an October evening in 1999 when 22-year-old Julie Bouvier was stabbed six times outside a Walmart in Cornwall, a small city in Ontario, Canada. She was about to be married and went to the shopping centre, with her friend, to buy nappies and baby formula.

She did not provoke her attacker, Sean Clifton. “The devil told him to stab the prettiest girl that he’d seen,” says Bouvier’s father.

Earlier that day, Clifton had snapped. He went to his local hospital’s psychiatric ward for help, to tell them he was hearing voices again. The hospital was too busy to talk to him. He went to Walmart to attack a woman, any woman. He shoplifted the knife.