En vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), la vida de Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), un anciano profesor, sufre una extraña transformación: tras ser alcanzado por un rayo, no sólo sigue vivo, sino que rejuvenece. Este hecho despierta el interés de los nazis, que pretenden servirse de él para sus investigaciones y experimentos. Dominic se ve entonces obligado a huir y a adoptar una nueva identidad. Convertido en un fugitivo, vagará por diversos países y conocerá a Verónica (Alexandra Maria Lara), una mujer idéntica a Laura, el gran amor de su vida.
Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of religions. He acquired something of the status of a guru, as poignantly told in the 1987 documentary Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré. The film features interviews with Eliade at the end of his life, artfully spliced with cuts to religious imagery on a background of moving spiritual music. It was released in 1987, the year after his death.
