Twin sisters Rob and Jack had an unusual upbringing. Instead of going to school and making friends their own age, they lived on a ranch lovingly nicknamed Sundial in the middle of the Arizona desert, surrounded by their parents Falcon and Mia and an ever-changing group of scientist grad students who came to the ranch to work in Falcon's lab.

Falcon was a former government scientist who left his prestigious job on the East Coast to come to Arizona and start a lab with no limitations, a lab where scientists with big ideas could see those ideas become actualized experiments.

And until their seventeenth birthday, Rob and Jack are both happy with their unconventional upbringing. But then Jack starts to suffer from hallucinations and violent outbreaks. And Falcon and Mia start to have discussions about the twins they don't want Rob to overhear. And on her eighteenth birthday Rob decides she's had enough, and she leaves Sundial--hoping it will be for good.

It isn't until Rob's daughter, Callie, begins hallucinating and exhibiting her own strange behavior that Rob is forced to confront what really happened at Sundial, and what that might mean for her and her own daughters.

This is the story of Rob and Jack, and the mad scientists of Sundial, Arizona.

Today's episode is based on Sundial by Catriona Ward. Today's ad is based on the 2017 movie I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore.

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