Wit

English literary scholar Vivian Bearing is a disciplined academian, an expert in the intricate metaphysical poetry of John Donne. She is prickly, precise and intensenly rational in her teaching and her life. Her academic cocoon protects her, cushions her, makes it possible to exist without the need of anyone. When she is suddenly faced with the most daunting of personal crises, a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, her 17th-century poetic world collides with the 21st-century experimental medicine, and a personal awakening is the in motion. (Cinemax)