The title refers to a "native", a cerebral angiogram which shows the whole brain including the arteries. Going native is also a metaphor for what it feels like to be seriously ill – and fighting for survival. Aldworth underwent a fMRI scan to get the images for the film which is in three sections. The first considers the fragility of personal identity: its dependency on the physical brain is suggested during the tap-dancing build-up to a brain haemorrhage. The second section looks at the physical brain after a stroke: as the doctors are working we see its structure as a series of patterned images ending with a spinning coin to suggest the randomness of illness. The final section asks us to think about our sense of self. The brain seems to be the seat of our personality, it contains all we are and know - our memories, feelings and thoughts. But what is their relationship to the brain's physical matter?