George T. Edison is a man obsessed with progress and invention, and the conquest of all knowledge that the world has to offer. So complete is his obsession that it allows him to lie to himself, his family, and to justify his own destructive, yet entertaining, behavior. When his youngest son Leo, himself a victim of his father's inventions, meets his first love Zella, she challenges him to discover the truth about himself and his father. Leo, who has an electrical charge constantly running through his veins due to a tragic accident in his Dad's laboratory, must learn to control the power inside of him and then confront a truly 'larger than life' father.