A couple of days before 1899 Christmas, the Oxford new graduate Dr. Edward Newgate arrives at the Stonehearst Asylum to complete training for his specialty of asylum medicine. He is met by ... See full summary »

Edward Newgate: You're mad!
Silas Lamb: We're all mad Dr. Newgate. Some are simply not mad enough to admit it.
Edward Newgate: Well to... bring them back to their senses.
Silas Lamb: And make a miserable man out of a perfectly happy horse?
Eliza Graves: You act like I'm some precious thing to be bartered or put on display or possessed.
Edward Newgate: It's not like that with me, Eliza.
Eliza Graves: No? How is it different?
Edward Newgate: It's you who possesses me.