Professor Yang a respected teacher of literature has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family... Are these just manifestations of illness or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.
