Outsider

No one knows for sure what possessed Henry Darger, a reclusive, weather obsessed hospital janitor to create his 15,000 page illustrated opus, but when The American Museum of Folk Art exhibits their collection of his strange and compelling murals, thousands of people come to share and appreciate his twisted visions of society gone horribly amuck. Yet, at one time Darger's work was known to only one man, Nathan Lerner, his landlord and unwilling executor. How Lerner discovered Darger's Realms of the Unreal, and brought it to the world's attention is the source for this compelling fictional meditation on the mysterious forces of creative energy we all share and the dark secret that Darger hid from the world.