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Set one hundred years ago in Paris The Radiant centers on the true tempestuous and love-torn life of Madame Marie Curie. Widowed at thirty-nine with two young children to raise and support she becomes involved in a scandalous affair with her young married assistant an affair which rocks Paris and nearly costs her her career - and her life. But she survives this and the great bias against women scientists throughout Europe then and goes on to discover and isolate radium earn two No