Munchausen Syndrome is when someone pretends that they are ill for sympathy or attention. Munchausen by Proxy is when a carer inflicts the status of sufferer upon a healthy person for an ulterior motive.
This short film is entirely dialogue-free.
The subject of Munchausen Syndrome will be, to a degree, focused on in Ari Aster's third feature film Beau is Afraid (2023).