The Menagerie of Marsepink

A tribute to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, this moral allegory examines the limits of natural science and the supernatural reality of the soul. A bright young zoology professor arrives at a prestigious Long Island college filled with jaded, materialistic scientists. But in a tower high above their heads, the college's angelic heiress devotedly watches over a collection of handmade animals made of a more mysterious stuff than cloth and string.