Under Their Influence is set in contemporary London. The action takes place in a mental institution where the patient is having what he hopes is his final assessment. Randoulf
takes his psychiatrist on a journey she does not anticipate, hoping that she will see him as an individual rather than a bunch of clinical symptoms to be controlled. As Doctor Kumar
is taken on this trip, we see and feel the internal workings of Randoulf, his political views, his passions, his weaknesses, his pain and vulnerability. We meet some of his friends,
lovers and most important of all, his alter ego.