This film explores seven brilliant scientists, their childhoods, their developing careers and those particular moments of discovery and breakthrough when serendipity and insight converge to make the world anew. A primatologist studies the lemurs of Madagascar, a physicist rethinks the cosmic order, a neuroscientist explores how the brain makes language, a robotics expert pursues artificial intelligence, a biologist brings pure water to the third world. Triangle resident and Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion, a Burroughs Wellcome researcher, is one of the seven, a late bloomer whose greatest discoveries came after the age of 60. This film is dedicated to her.