After years of debilitating period pain and unexplained symptoms, Malak finally gets a diagnosis: she has endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 1 in every 10 women and people who menstruate worldwide. Despite being so prevalent, the disease has no known cause, no cure, and is not taken seriously, even by her own mother.

In I Told You So Malak grapples with a tumultuous relationship with her pain, her body and her dreams for the future. On this journey of discovery mired by self-doubt and shame, she enters the world of “Endo Warriors,” patients who have lost their patience, in hopes that she can finally come to terms with the question: “How do I live with this?