Madness and Genius

Set in an Ivy League college environment, the story revolves around the conflict between Professor Frank Donovan (noted character actor Tom Noonan) and Jordan McKyle (David James Hayward), an ambitious, ethically questionable young student with a dark secret of his own. Eslinger’s poignant study of human nature, scientific ethics and morality, and the notion of the ‘Greater Good’ reveals how brilliance may, in fact, alienate one from the world and from oneself. (Verleiher-Text)