LOS ANGELES, Feb 21 ― Chloe Grace Moretz finds herself in need of a medical miracle in this first trailer for Brain on Fire.    

The film is based on the true life story of Susannah Cahalan, a journalist in New York City who found her life in disarray after she was inflicted with serious health issues that included memory loss, seizures and hallucinations (scientifically diagnosed as anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis).

Doctors at first didn’t know what was wrong with her and had chalked up ger symptoms to partying and stress. Cahalan wrote about her experience, recovery, and life in her acclaimed 2012 memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness.

The film also stars Tyler Perry, Jenny Slate, Richard Armitage, Thomas Mann and Carrie-Anne Moss.

The synopsis of the film reads: "One morning, 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up in a hospital bed. She couldn’t speak. She couldn’t move. And she had no idea how she got there. Based on Cahalan’s bestselling memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, director Gerard Barrett’s adaptation captures the horrifying experience of one woman’s unexplained descent into madness and the medical miracle it took to pull her back from the brink. Fresh out of journalism school and ready to embark on adult life, Susannah (Moretz) already seemed to have it all: her dream job at the New York Post, supportive co-workers (Perry and Slate), a devoted boyfriend (Mann), and a loving family (Richard Armitage and Carrie-Anne Moss). Then, almost overnight, this ingénue went from one of the Post’s most reliable reporters to an unstable, paranoid shell of her former self. Plagued by auditory hallucinations and memory loss, doctors dismissed her condition with a diagnosis of partying too hard and stress. But as her condition worsened, the stakes grew higher, and the race to find an answer became a matter of life and death.”

Brain on Fire will be released by Netflix this year.