Noted architect Martin is at the pinnacle of his success. In one week he has become the youngest person ever to win architecture’s prestigious Pritzker Prize, has been commissioned to create the multibillion-dollar visionary project The World City and has celebrated his 50th birthday.

Martin shares a loving home with wife Stevie and gay 17-year old son Billy, whom both parents accept wholeheartedly.

As he prepares for an interview with longtime friend (and TV-talk host) Ross, the preoccupied Martin banters with Stevie, trying to mask distress with jests about midlife memory loss. Yet alone with his interviewer, Martin breaks down, the interview breaks off and Martin confides. He has fallen in love! The affair has gone on for six months. While hunting for a house in the country, he stopped on the crest of the hill and saw her “looking at me with those eyes”. He hands Ross a picture of Sylvia, and Ross reacts in consternation. Sylvia is a goat.

In the next scene, Stevie has received a letter from best-friend-turned-snitch Ross. Both wife and son now know Martin’s secret. This sets the stage for the explosive confrontation between Stevie and Martin. She wants him to explain that which cannot be explained. In her frustration, she breaks things, turning their perfect living room into a visible manifestation of their shattered lifex

Beneath its surface topic, The Goat deals with fundamental issues, needling us with disturbing questions. What is love? What is attraction? What is the value of pursuing your bliss when it destroys those who love you?