Prof is sixty-seven years old, stuck in a job he hates at a small university. His only good friend is William Shakespeare.

Murph is twenty-four years old, out of focus, lost in his life. He’s never really had a really good friend.

There is no logical reason why their worlds should ever collide.

William Shakespeare is four hundred and fifty years old with hundreds of millions of friends. He is the unlikely agent who brings Murph and Prof together for a few tutoring sessions, shaking up their lives through comedy, tragedy, and a hunger for human understanding, transcending the borders of age, education and isolation, to discover connections and consolations which all three of them share.