A fake marriage proposal between two strangers is filmed and goes completely viral. When all the attention starts to help them with their struggling lives and businesses, Millie and Leo play pretend, while trying to ignore the fact that they might not be pretending after all.
After burying their father earlier during the year, two sisters have to make Christmas happen without falling in an argument. An unexpected twist will arrive at the festivities.
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
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