These Animals Strike Curious Poses

A promising university student withdraws from the public eye. His mother follows after him. The two descend into an abyss inside their home.
Dr. Miriam Vales, a tenured psychology professor, abandons her career to become a full-time caregiver for her twenty-year-old son, Julian, after a sudden, inexplicable illness confines him to their home. Behind the permanently drawn blackout curtains of their apartment, Dr. Vales clings to prayer and reason.
But Julian’s affliction defies every biological law. He consumes no food, yet his body refuses to waste away.