Adelaide is titled after its main character, an attractive well-to-do young woman afflicted with MΓΌnchausen syndrome, a disorder characterized by the feigning of illness to attract sympathy. Adelaide’s is an especially dark variety of the syndrome, as she frequently will put herself into dangerous positions in order to get closer to her (married) physician. After her latest self-inflicted episode she is firmly rebuffed by the doctor, and in her depressed aftermath we come to see the depth of her isolation and loneliness. Heeding her doctor’s advice to “find someone her own age”, she begins to court a shy pharmacist hoping to find the companionship and understanding that has been missing in her life.