Live With Lightning is, first and foremost, the story of Erik Gorin, who at the beginning of the novel is only a young physicist in love-in love with the secrets of the universe, and with a grey-eyed girl named Savina. It is Savina who sees in him the spark of genius, who knows that in him there is something of the lightning which he himself creates. It is she who inspires him to greater things, and makes him ambitious for worldly success.