The Study Group

When first-year PhD student Nadia Osei shares an electric, four-hour conversation with a stranger on a flight to Boston, she never expects to walk into orientation the next morning and find him seated among her three faculty advisors. As she navigates a brilliant, demanding tri-advisor research programme in computational neuroscience, the careful boundaries she and Dr. Elias North maintain begin to give way to something neither of them can model away, tested and witnessed by two colleagues who are watching far more closely than she realizes. Across two years of fierce intellectual partnership, mounting tension, and hard-won trust, Nadia and Elias must decide what they are willing to risk for a connection that keeps proving, against every careful prediction, to be real.