Common Side Effects
Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances uncover a rare mushroom that could cure every disease, then collide with a big-pharma and government plot to bury it. Common Side Effects follows Marshall and Frances, former high school lab partners whose paths cross again when a strange fungus enters their lives. The pair quickly realize the mushroom appears capable of reversing illness on a scale no existing medicine matches. Their early tests and inquiries draw unwanted attention from pharmaceutical interests and federal players who prefer the discovery stay hidden. Marshall brings restless curiosity and a willingness to push boundaries in the lab, while Frances supplies sharper caution and a clearer sense of the institutional walls ahead. Together they chase samples, contacts, and half-buried records, turning a scientific hunch into a widening fight over who controls a potential u