In a miracle of time and space, a brilliant mind sparks back into life from the shadowy recesses of forgotten history…

Émilie La Marquise du Châtelet- french courtier, avid philosopher, and revolutionary physicist- returns nearly three hundred years after her death to answer the question she died with:  “What matters? What lasts?” In a whirlwind of physics and memory Émilie will relive her greatest triumphs and examine her deepest regrets, all the while pitting love against philosophy in a bid to quantify the importance of each.  Based on the real life of an exceptional individual, Lauren Gunderson’s Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight follows the sumptuous recollections of a scientist as she attempts to define her legacy, her love, and her life.