This work tells the story of a posthumous winner of the infamous Darwin Award and of those he left behind; weaving through circus sideshows, trailer parks, squalid motel rooms and a psychotherapist's office. A world rife with eccentric characters: carnie performers; a man in an existential war with the Second Law of Thermodynamics; neurotic patients under the care of a devious psychiatrist; souls suffering from an oriental curse; and many more. A parallel universe where the only well adjusted individual happens to be a sideshow performer known as the Monkey-face woman. Scions of Icarus is a farcical tale that ultimately celebrates the triumph of the human spirit.