Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Director Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

A short time after being the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics, Marie Curie (Karolina Gruszka) loses her husband Pierre (Charles Berling). In a world dominated by men, shecontinues her research alone, and is the first woman to receive a chair at the Sorbonne in Paris. Shortly thereafter, she begins an affair with scientist Paul Langevin (Arieh Worthalter), and just as soon as it becomes known that she is receiving her second Nobel Prize, the Paris press publishes correspondence between Marie and Paul. Amid her prof..