Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, begins talking about a boy that he had to help and then he says that he’ll start with the beginning of the story, and he does. Hester Salomon, a court magistrate, asks Dr. Dysart to help a boy, who is being tried on her bench, by taking him into the psychiatric hospital. Dysart complies and takes on Alan Strang, a seventeen-year-old boy who blinded six horses with a metal …showed first 75 words of 454 total…

…showed last 75 words of 454 total…stables and tries to have sex with him. He wants to, but all he can see in his “God” Equus (a horse) when he is there. Alan goes into convulsions at the end of his story that he tells the doctor. In the end, Dr. Dysart tells Alan that he’ll be okay and he tells him how his life will be. Then the doctor begins to see Equus and knows how the boy feels.