back and forth in time revisiting moments all through his life from love-struck student, to opposition to McCarthyism, to overnight celebrity, to the collapse of his marriage, to the halcyon days of the Olympia Academy, his children’s rejection of him, the onslaught of the uncertainty principal. Along the way, characters emerge out of his head to confront him. Finally he is thrust into a confrontation with the lost daughter, a confrontation which sends him hurtling for safety back to the sublime moment of the discovery of the theory of relativity after a walk home with his best friend Michele Besso.

Einstein is revealed not only as genius and humanitarian but as the iconoclast who fought