He didn't set out to be a tyrant. That's what makes him so dangerous.
Oscar Diggs drifts from a failing carnival act in Omaha to a balloon accidentally launched over the rainbow. Landing in a land that mistakes spectacle for divinity, Oscar does what he has always done: improvise, charm, and survive. This film follows the twenty years between his arrival in Oz and the moment Elphaba first knocks on the Emerald City gates — a story about how a mediocre, frightened man becomes a system. Political in scale, intimate in its tragedy.
