Tracing the unlikely friendship of a first-generation college student and her former professor, each struggling privately with a brother's radical choice and the onslaught of the internet's opinions, the drama Independent Study comes to New York. The play grapples with tribal allegiance and violence, and with digital hate and its repercussions in the physical space. Simultaneously, it explores the limits of teaching and the burning insistence of the best students to make classroom ideas manifest in the world.