Synopsis

Bernard Selden (Ayre Gross) has lived with a debilitating fear since childhood. It began at age six, when a fire he started claimed the life of his four-year-old sister, and now, at twenty-seven, the fear remains a constant companion. But Dr. Adam Pike (Jeffrey Deunn) offers a glimmer of hope. He has diagnosed Bernard’s affliction and believes that by isolating the amygdala, the brain's fear center, he can effect a cure. A regimen of injections and radiation, designed to build a calcium sheath a