High school chemistry teacher Walter White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and partners with his former student Jesse Pinkman to manufacture methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future. What begins as a desperate act gradually reveals the terrifying truth about Walter: he is not sacrificing himself for his family — he is using them as justification for becoming exactly who he always wanted to be. One of television's greatest achievements — a five-season tragedy about a man who mistakes ego for love and destroys everything he touches.