James has stomach pains. His doctor suggests a psychologist. James disagrees.
Over five days, the people closest to James - his wife, his friends, his doctor - try, in their different ways, to reach him. He is not unreachable. He is simply certain he is right.
Lasting Consequences is a study in the ordinary violence of a man who confuses love with ownership, and punishment with justice - and who, all the while, is in genuine pain.