Through a series of 23 trenchantly sketched scenes in two acts  the Arendt-Heidegger play billed as a love story  covers the years 1924 when the brilliant  and wide-eyed  18-year-old Hannah Arendt – some forty years before she coined the eponymous term ‘banality of evil’ which brought her world-wide fame – first meets her teacher  the 35-year-old  the philosopher Martin Heidegger  soon to be lionized for his book Being and Time (1927)  and ends in 1964 in a dramatic confrontation between both parties