“Surely you know how to think?”

It begins in 1946 as the now-accomplished journalist and theorist Hannah Arendt (Christina Gorman) dictates a retraction of a previous condemnation of her mentor and former lover, the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger (Lawrence Grimm), whose early advocacy for the Nazi party continues to cripple his post-war academic career possibilities. The German-Jewish Hannah cites hearsay and a merciful position to allow future students the benefit of Heidegger’s scholarship, but her assistant Alice (Jazzma Pryor) implores her to acknowledge Heidegger for who he is and for the terrible things that he did to fan, through his writings and lectures, the early flames of the rise of Hilter and the Nazi Party.