Set during the Great Depression, two Midwest brothers get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and an eccentric young criminal.
Steven is a renowned journalist that has forgotten why he became a writer. He is in a state of constant emptiness and begins to realize that the world of bureaucracy and corporations has killed his passion for self-expression. In reconciling this discovery, he must choose between the life of the imprisoned artist or the free individual.
A rookie scientist at a stem cell research institute witnesses abnormal activity from a mouse which has been administered a developing drug at the laboratory. The mouse has become extremely ferocious and injures him by biting him in the hand. Although the mouse is destroyed and discarded according to the supervisor’s orders, he feels something is wrong when the supervisor and his colleagues dismiss the incident and stubbornly refuse to investigate the cause of the abnormal behaviour. Although he raises concern about the safety of the product to human bodies, the supervisor keeps denying it while claiming that there’s no defect in their research, whose goal is to create human happiness. It’s clear there’s a hidden agenda with dire consequences for him and humanity.
While on a trip to France, English linguistics professor Dr. Isaac Keiser must decide the fate of his relationship with his younger, wild girlfriend, Francesca, after he learns the disturbing details of her erotic love affair.
