"It's hard to imagine a better route into true philosophical inquiry than time in prison. Regret, causality, the nature of freedom: these are urgent issues to the incarcerated. Time is both impossibly empty and passing at terrifying speed. You face endless days and nights with only the inside of your head for company. You are at the sharpest end of practical philosophy, whether you like it or not. What is life for?"
"Dan is a more tormented figure than many of the prisoners. He experiences crippling OCD indeed, his relentlessly checked, photographed and filmed gas cooker probably deserves a Bafta nomination for the implacable yet weirdly expressive shift it puts in here and is haunted by imaginary encounters with his long-estranged father. Is he that man? Where do questions around nature and nurture land in relation to him?"
A six-part drama follows Dan, a philosophy professor who sought to escape a criminal family but remains haunted by familial patterns. Prison life forces confrontation with regret, causality and the nature of freedom amid long stretches of isolation and relentless self-reflection. Dan endures crippling OCD and intrusive fantasies about following his father and brother into crime. The drama foregrounds practical philosophical questions through Dan's internal torments, flashbacks to a domineering father, and scenes that blur memory and reality. Themes of nature versus nurture, identity, and the possibility of change drive the narrative tension.
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