PACKRAT SYNOPSIS 125 WORDS

Filmmaker Kris Britt Montag traces her family’s struggle to deal with “Packratting.” Through family interviews, Kris chronicles her father’s life and the development of the problem, which clinical professionals consider a possible symptom of Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. Personal and informational, “Packrat” looks at what it’s like to grow up with hoarding as an issue.

Kris seeks out sufferers and professionals. She finds Jack, a recovering Packrat. Liz Burden is a social worker who treats mainly the elderly. Randy Frost is a leading clinician in hoarding studies. Ron Alford specializes in crisis management. In all, Kris seeks to shed some light on, and to find some resolution to, her past, but also to help her deal with her own hoarding issues for the future.