1961, yale University. A psychology experiment that resonates to this day, in which people think that they're delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger is designed by stanley Milgram. Despite his pleads for mercy, a clear majority of subjects don't stop the experimentation, administering what they presume is that a shock because they have been told to do. Milgram strikes a nerve in culture and the community with his exploration into people's tendency, with Nazi Adolf Eichmann's trial airing in areas across America. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive creature, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.