William Agar

William is a kind, repressed, neurotic psychiatrist (then called alienist) looking to transform mental care. This is still a time when people would still pay to go and laugh at the chained-up patients and treatments included beating and bleeding.

As an alienist, William is on the fringes of the medical world – ‘mad doctors’ were looked down on by fellow physicians. William is no less pioneering than his friends – he wants to let his patients express themselves by doing a painting, putting on a play, or with trips to the library. He wants to talk to them… a radical notion. But it’s not easy. In fact William finds dealing with his own feelings a challenge. Especially when it comes to Robert’s wife, Caroline…