He wanted the moon

Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920's and 1930's. Early in his career, ahead of its time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself. His illness caused him to loose his career and his family. His daughter, Mimi, always wondered what had happened to her father after her mother's divorce. Through painstaking research she has able to re-construct a brilliant life that ended disastrously.