A drama centered on a mother's relationship with her autistic son.

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.