Synopsis

Driven by the conviction that her uncle Edgar had succumbed to senility, a woman sought to have him declared mentally unfit. The attending physician found Edgar residing in an apartment overflowing with a bewildering assortment of discarded objects. He insisted that a disembodied voice guided his collecting, directing him to assemble these items into a device designed to maintain equilibrium in the world. The doctor, convinced of Edgar’s delusion, ordered his commitment. But the physician's cert