When a disgraced former college professor has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by h...
When a disgraced former college professor has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking secret about his own life that he has kept secret for 50 year.
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkin), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty year from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating conequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to recontruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to undertand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.