Set on the foggy streets of modern London, 'The American Student' explores the painful cost of passion and the bitter price of redemption in four young lives. Dr. Byron Edwards is haunted by the dark reasons for his expulsion from the post of professor at Oxford University, one year earlier. Left to decay in his self-isolation, his solitude is cracked open by the appearance of two visitors--one, a strange, alluring young woman, the other his maniacal ex-lover, driven by possessive jealousy and murderous revenge. Caught in a tangle between the two extremes, Edwards is torn between his desire to cure his strangling loneliness and by his pledge never to love again. As the web of madness, murder and secrecy untangles, Edwards finds himself and his friends in the sights of danger, and is forced to decide whether love is worth the cost