By about fourth year of university, I was more than a little sick of the psychological condition known to textbooks as prosopagnosia. Good thing then, that Julien Magnat has decided to cut out all the boring bits, rename it “face blindness” and give Milla Jovovich yet another memory problem.

After losing her memory in Resident Evil and, well, whatever the Hell happened in Fifth Element (it’s been so long!), Jovovich is set to lose her ability to distinguish between human faces in new thriller Faces in the Crowd (via Bloody Disgusting).

The story centers on a woman (Jovovich) who barely survives an attack by a serial killer and wakes up in hospital with a head injury that leaves her “face-blind.” No longer able to recognize faces, she must navigate a world in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them. All the while the killer is closing in, determined to eliminate the potential witness.

Co-starring Julian McMahon, Michael Shanks, David Atrakchi, Sarah Wayne Callies and Marianne Faithful, Faces in the Crowd will be distributed by First Look in the U.S.

Is it just me or does Prosopagnosia have a better ring to it?