Part 2: Gravity

The shiny, happy surface of Part 1 is pulled away in Part 2 to expose the underbelly of that history through the case of Arthur Rudolph. Rudolph, a colleague of Wernher von Braun and one-time top NASA Project Manager for the Apollo rocket program, is tainted decades later by revelations of his Nazi past as production manager of Hitler’s V-2 rocket. While investigating the war crimes of this old man, Eli Rosenbaum, a young U.S. Justice Department prosecutor discovers the post-war crimes of his own government in its fevered ambition to become a world power. 3000 file boxes on stage contain dark secrets, memories and desires as individuals, excavate the past to discover the ethics of the contradictory impulses contained in each soul.