Jude, JB, Willem, and Malcolm: Four New Yorkers who met in college. Jude St. Francis, brilliant and enigmatic, is the charismatic figure at the center of the group - a selflessly loving yet internally broken person. The friends are increasingly drawn into Jude's dark, painful world, where its monsters gradually emerge. "A Little Life" is an intoxicating epic told with an almost incomprehensible urgency about trauma, human kindness, and friendship as true love.