Beyond the Pale

The predictability of the human spirit can be measured, but only to a certain degree. Injustices will be tolerated. Abuses will be excused. As history teaches, efforts to adapt will be made. But are there limits as to how much will be endured?

Just as one walks by a sleeping dogperhaps ten feet away, eight, maybe sixnothing happens. But to pass just a fraction closerthat one additional foot, or even an inchat some distance the dog will allow no more. Just as with the dog, when a human injustice goes beyond the palebe the victim a single person or a nationthen predictability becomes as meaningless as a melted iceberg.

Beyond the Pale looks at an ordinary man who holds the tobacco industry accountable for his wifes inoperable cancer and subsequent death. After a suicidal year plagued with guilt and despair, a champion emerges.

Morality is a luxury forgone. He becomes as the industry has becomecold, calculating, and indifferent. His rules govern the warnot a war fought in the courts or in the Congressbut real war, a war of death, treachery, and betrayal. The battlefields are his choosingno quarter expected and none given.

Years of political manipulation, legal bullying, and financial intimidation created a monster. Now the monster must die.