London, 2000: Terminally ill Albert summons old war buddies Frank and Harry to his hospital bed with a bizarre request. When he dies, he wants them to snatch his corpse from the hospital morgue and drive it, in Harrys taxi, to Germany, where they all met, for burial. Thanks to Franks ingenuity they get the body past Customs but almost lose it in France, recovering it thanks to Vicki, a German hitch hiker that they pick up. Their good deed is in part atonement for allowing a German girl that they knew fifty five years earlier to be killed by Russian soldiers, as they explain to Vicki. They dug her grave too and now bury Albert in close proximity to it. Vicki departs but the two old friends find her presence has been positive for them.

The possibility of traveling to the future and the past is examined through Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, the laws of physics and Earth's nearest star; scientific search for Earth-like planet may end in the next few years.

To save it from being put to death, Professor Albert Dooley takes home a dumb duck from the research laboratory, which accidentally was exposed to X-rays. At home he discovers that it lays now golden eggs. Since he's broke all the time, his family welcomes this new source of income greatly, and tries to keep it secret. But their greedy neighbors become suspicious.

In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein was on holiday in a small resort town on the tip of Long Island. His peaceful summer, however, was about to be shattered by a visit from an old friend and colleague from his years in Berlin. The visitor was the physicist Leo Szilard. He had come to tell Einstein that he feared the Nazis could soon be in possession of a terrible new weapon and that something had to be done.