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Christmas Eve, 1937, Piatra Neamt, Romania: Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor, contemplates suicide. The love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his lifes work on the origins of language. On April 24th 1938, Easter Sunday, he takes a train to Bucharest to kill himself, but suddenly hes struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he miraculously grows younger and gains superhuman powers. WWII breaks out and Romanias fascist dictator Ion Antonescu cooperates with Adolf Hitler. Matei must escape to Switzerland, because Nazi scientists want to use his powers...Some years later, he meets a woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research...Coppolas adaptation of s surreal novella is a mysterious, romantic, melancholic and humorous journey to the outer limits of space, time and identity. Dreams become reality and reality feels like a dream...
Professor of linguistics Dominic Matei survives a cataclysmic event and finds his youth restored. However, his intellect attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, forcing him into exile. While on the run, he reunites with his lost love and works to complete his research on the origins of language.
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