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America, 1880. The world is lit by fire; machines are driven by steam or by the application of force. The brilliant inventor Thomas Edison has made a series of breakthrough discoveries, including direct current and the invention of the incandescent lamp. While he meets with investors, engineer George Westinghouse, who made his fortune on the patent for train brakes, sees more advantages in the use of alternating current. Moreover, the shortsighted businessman Edison hires the immigrant Nikola Tesla as a mere engineer, and, failing to see the potential in his ideas, soon loses a valuable employee. The competition to electrify American cities — the war of direct and alternating current — continues.