Pinchas Rutenberg was a visionary, a man of contradictions. His past in Russia remains clad in mystery. His talents for business and charming world leaders into backing his "dreams" add up to an intriguing personality. The story spins from the Jordan river where he looks to set up the first power plant in the region to the London parlours, where he tries to gain Churchil's approval for the power plant. He is surrounded by young devotees who follow him from the fashionable London parties to the arid banks of the Jordan river. The terrible floods of winter 1931 threaten to drown the power plant but Rotenberg is determined to rescue his "dream".