© by Louis Felder

(Drama) A psychotherapist struggles to treat a physicist who is bipolar, delusional, brilliant, and personally challenging.

Two characters, one set, present day

CHARACTERS

Margaret, 30s-40s, a psychotherapist, intelligent, cool.

David, 30s, a Nobel Prize-nominated physicist who is bipolar -- euphoric one moment, depressed the next, -- intelligent, demanding.

SYNOPSIS

A psychotherapist must deal with a physicist who is bipolar -- euphoric, depressed, suicidal, and perhaps menacing to her. Rejected for a Nobel Prize because his theory on dark matter was only a theory and not a discovery, he declares he has found a proof -- by standing naked on his roof and imagining that he has welcomed dark matter inside him. He counters all her psychotherapeutic maneuvers, determined never to give up on his theory -- the way she gave up on her original doctorial dissertation. When he leaves the session, she understands more about herself.