DE ANIMA(L)

When Jumpin’ Jack, the jackrabbit mascot at Gennesaret Christian College goes missing and a note bearing an enigmatic “(L)” is left at his cage, suspicions immediately focus on the philosophy class of Professor Edward Stathakis. Citing Aristotle’s treatise De Anima (On the Soul) during one of his lectures, the professor had tacked an (L) onto the end of the word anima to stimulate a Socratic dialogue among his students on the question of whether animals have souls. But Edward soon discovers that his simple academic exercise has inflamed imaginations and deep-seated passions that threaten to upend his life and the lives of his students.

Caught up in a whirlwind of investigations, revelations and a tragic death, the professor is forced to examine his own philosophy of the meaning of life, animal as well as human.