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Entertaining but entirely fictional account of the events surrounding the discovery of superconductivity above 77 K. If one reviews other first-person accounts by the very principals who portrayed themselves in this program, one will discovery a bizarre spectrum of wildly conflicting stories. This documentary represents the more fanciful end of that spectrum, similar to the one UH submitted to the courts in their patent fight. Years later, the individual who provided the bulk of the testimony in the Houston claim recanted her story in a formal affidavit to a federal district court in Texas. For fascinating alternatives to this account, see Robert Hazen's book recounting the events (he acknowledges Paul Chu as his principal source in the appendix) or Chu's paper "High-Temperature Superconducting Materials: A Decade of Impressive Advancement of Tc" (one of many similar accounts where he largely admits that he had little to do with the discovery). The typical NOVA viewer expects better than this.