Who is Albert Einstein from Einstein's Dreams and what is their importance?

Albert Einstein is working as a patent clerk in Berne, Switzerland, and he is working on a theory of time as part of his theory of relativity. Einstein has become obsessed with time because he is dreaming about time every night. In every one of his dreams, time has a different character, and the character of time affects the lives of the people of Berne and of the world. Essentially, each dream describes a different universe. Einstein's dreams drive him to find the truth about time. They also exhaust him.