Bolshoy Pharma

Jack Bauman, humble, humanistic and mild mannered indy neuroscientist, assisted by his underappreciated yet beloved female post doc (Carla Timons), discover a drug (XY57) that cures learned helplessness in rats which promises to be a money making miracle treatment for paralytic depression in people, particularly those who need to find their inner Power and Real Voice. Jack’s commercial, money hungry, fame-seeking and very jealous old guard competitor, R. Thomas Schleem, gets wind of XY57 when Jack and Carla try to get the animal data published. Schleem not only tries to sabotage the young Assistant Professor’s reputation in the scientific Academic circles, but sends in spies to steal the formula for the drug and the services of Carla. Genuine scientific curiosity and the temptation to use XY57 to turn normal people into powerful supermen result in the highly addictive drug getting into key people in the general human population, resulting in a world where lower human desires and primal destructive urges threaten to destroy both intellectual reason and basic human compassion. Alliances shift, then get redefined, as Bauman, Timons and Schleem dive deep into themselves, utilizing their special abilities to save humanity from itself, as well as to catapult it into self annihilation.