Europe, blinded, is slaughtering its children in the trenches of the Great War. In the streets of Berlin, inexperienced volunteers pour out of the recruitment offices, inspiring, exciting, and terrorizing. No one senses the impending total destruction, except for Albert Einstein.

Shut away at the university, he forges the equations of relativity, while his nationalist colleagues produce toxic gases in order to shorten the war. He cannot stand them - yet he cannot stand his broken marriage either, the hindrance to his forbidden love for his cousin.

At the same time, in the hell of battle, a deeply religious Belgian rifleman, Georges Lemaître, decides - if he survives - to dedicate himself to theology, as well as to his beloved physics. At the end of the Great War, Einstein becomes a global icon, while the defeated Germany unleashes its fury on the German Jews.

Although his name ranks high on the list of the proscribed, Albert is not overly concerned. He perfects his new theory while nostalgically yearning for his ex-wife. An unyielding clergyman approaches him: In your mathematics lies the genesis of Creation. Leave me alone, Lemaître. You want to graft your religion onto relativity.

Believe me! Your mathematics speak of a Universe that is expanding. Your theory leads to the 'Big Bang: on the day without yesterday'. A new era dawns for cosmology, while the famous atheist lives a thriller: What will I do with this priest who knows my theory better than I do? Is the Big Bang theory valid? Which woman will I live with? In which country will I stay?

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]