Torture the Artist

Vincent Spinetti is a gifted young writer whose career and mental health are systematically manipulated by a shadowy organization that believes suffering produces better art. His manager, Harlan Eifler, is secretly working for the New Renaissance, an experimental group that recruits and tortures its most promising artists to see if suffering can be harnessed to create superior work. As Vincent's life unravels under Harlan's direction, the true nature of the organization's experiment is slowly revealed.