Death of a Superhero
Anthony McCarten

Donald Delpe is fourteen years old, and is a fairly typical teenage boy, obsessed with sex, music, making a bit of money – and with comic books, writing and drawing his own. Donald though also has leaukemia, and to his family, he seems to escape into his comic-book world rather than try to deal with the fight he faces in reality, much to their desperation. Convinced that he is simply giving up, they send him to psychologist Adrian King, in an effort to try and get him to act and react more in the way that they think he should be doing – only for King to find himself as much affected by the boy as he tries to draw him out.