About
Richard is a distinguished and disciplined literature professor at a prestigious New England college whose orderly, intellectual existence is upended by a sudden, devastating medical diagnosis. Faced with the stark realization that his time is limited, he undergoes a profound psychological shift that strips away his long-held social filters and academic reserve. Abandoning the conventional expectations of his profession and his personal life, Richard embarks on an unconventional crusade to experience life with radical honesty and reckless abandon. Armed with a razor-sharp, sardonic wit and an newfound indifference toward social norms, he begins to challenge the stifling pretenses of the campus bubble and his own failing marriage. As he indulges in a series of impulsive, unapologetic behaviors, he oscillates between manic liberation and quiet desperation, attempting to teach his students—and himself—how to truly inhabit the fleeting moments of existence. The film explores the friction between a man confronting his own mortality and the rigid, often hypocritical world he has occupied for decades, setting the stage for a journey that is as darkly comedic as it is deeply melancholic.