Igor's 'prognosis' jump-starts Veronika's new appreciation of the world around her. Igor, attempts a fascinating but provocative experiment: can you 'shock' someone into wanting to live by convincing her that death is imminent? Like a doctor applying defibrillator paddles to a heart attack victim, Dr. In the meantime, Villete's head psychiatrist, Dr. Because of this new-found freedom Veronika experiences all the things she never allowed herself to experience, including hatred and love. During her internment in Villete she realizes that she has nothing to lose and can therefore do what she wants, say what she wants and be who she wants without having to worry about what others think of her as a mental patient, she is unlikely to be criticized. Her presence there affects all of the mental hospital's patients, especially Zedka, who has clinical depression Mari, who suffers from panic attacks and Eduard, who has schizophrenia, and with whom Veronika falls in love. Her plan fails and she wakes up in Villete, a mental hospital in Slovenia, where she is told she has only a few days to live due a heart condition caused by the overdose. The magazine article wittily asks 'Where is Slovenia?', so she writes a letter to the press justifying her suicide, the idea being to make the press believe that she has killed herself because people don't even know where Slovenia is. While she waits to die, she cancels the suicide letter she starts to her parents while suddenly provoked by a magazine article. Veronika is a beautiful young woman from Ljubljana, Slovenia who appears to have the perfect life, but nevertheless decides to die (commit suicide) by overdosing with sleeping pills.

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