1961, yale University. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still equates to the very day, in which people think they're delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger wrapped into a seat in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the experimentation don't stop, administering what they presume is that a electric jolt, simply because they have been told to do. Milgram strikes a nerve in culture and the community together with his quest into people's trend to follow authority. His wife Sasha stands by him through it all, although celebrated in a few circles, he is accused of being a deceitful, manipulative creature.