Maykl Bierd nobelevskiy laureat, uchenyy s gromkim imenem i slozhnym harakterom. Ego blestyaschee proshloe merknet na fone obrushivsheysya lichnoy zhizni i issyakayuschego vdohnoveniya. Pogryaznuv v pyatom brake, v lyubovnyh unizheniyah i samoobmane, on neozhidanno okazyvaetsya vtyanut v avantyuru, gde nauchnye idei, lichnye slabosti i globalnye problemy chelovechestva perepletayutsya v odin komichnyy i tragicheskiy uzel.
Solnechnyy svet neischerpaemyy istochnik energii stanovitsya ne tolko simvolom spaseniya planety, no i zerkalom, v kotorom geroy vidit sobstvennuyu ten.
