Set on the foggy streets of modern London, 'The American Student' explores the painful cost of passion and the bitter price of redemption in four young lives. Dr. Byron Edwards is haunted by the dark reasons for his expulsion from the post of professor at Oxford University, one year earlier. Left to decay in his self-isolation, his solitude is cracked open by the appearance of two visitors--one, a strange, alluring young woman, the other his maniacal...