Dr. Vivian Bearing is a brilliant professor of literature who discovers that she has ovarian cancer. When she is studying the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, she is intensely rational. But during the course of her illness and chemotherapy, she comes to see her life and work in a new light with insight and humor that is transformative to everyone around her. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson asks big questions about faith, science, language, memory, and death.