After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an intense relationship that causes shy Adam to go to extraordinary lengths to improve his appearance and character. In the process, Evelyn’s subtle and insistent coaching results in a reconstruction of Adam’s fundamental moral character. The Shape of Things is an intense study not only of the uses of power within human relationships, but also of the ethics involved in the relationship of art and life. At what point does creation become manipulation, and at what point does creation destroy?