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Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram Designs a Psychology Experiment That Still Resonates To This Day, In Which People Think They're Delivering Painful Electric Shocks To An Affable Stranger Strapped Into a Chair In Another Room. Despite His Pleads For Mercy, The Majority of Subjects Don't Stop The Experiment, Administering What They Think Is a Near-Fatal Electric Shock, Simply Because They've Been Told To Do So. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann's Trial Airing In Living Rooms Across America, Milgram Strikes a Nerve In Popular Culture And The Scientific Community With His Exploration Into People's Tendency To Comply With Authority. Celebrated In Some Circles, He Is Also Accused of Being a Deceptive, Manipulative Monster, But His Wife Sasha Stands By Him Through It All.