Joe Pitts, a brilliant if somewhat obsessive and cynical
graduate student from a wealthy dysfunctional family lashes out
under pressure against what he sees as the hypocrisy of society and
the futility of his life in it. Briefly committed to a psychiatric
ward in the aftermath of an altercation with one of his professors,
he meets Dr. Margaret Wright, a resident and Susan Holland, a
somewhat mystical nursing student. Just as Joe begins to believe
that his intellect and his Ego can overcome what he sees as a minor
troubling interlude in his life, he receives a shock. It is a
diagnosis of terminal testicular cancer.
With the aid of Dr. Wright, Susan, Roberta Turner, a
philosophical fellow student and Dr. Shultz, the very professor
with whom his altercation began this odyssey, and a man whose wife
has just made the final passage, Joe learns in the hospice to
revere his own, now fleeting existence and gains the humility
necessary to face the next and final stage of his life.
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