Kate Battista

Kate Battista is a 92-year-old woman who works as a teacher’s aide at a local prep school. She is strong-willed and has issues with polite social interaction as well as reading social cues.

After her expulsion, Kate dropped out of college altogether. She lives with her father and sister and has cared for her sister, and taken care of the cooking and housekeeping.

She resists the idea of marrying Pyotr in an effort to help her father’s research. She wants to be accepted for who she is, but fears no one will love her.

Her character is the equivalent to Katherine in “Taming of the Shrew.”

Pyotr Cherbakov

Pyotr Cherbakov is Dr. Battista’s research assistant at the lab. He is in the country on an O-1 visa, which designates him as having a special skill to use while in the country, but it is...