Youth Without Youth

In 1938, Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor of linguistics in Piatra Neamț, travels to Bucharest, where he met the love of his youth, Laura. Feeling that his fruitless search for the origin of human language has condemned him to a solitary, wasted life, Dominic wants to commit suicide. In Bucharest, he is struck by lightning. Dominic subsequently regenerates into a younger man and gains psychic capacities. As Romania is invaded by Nazi Germany, Doktor Josef Rudolf begins to show an interest in Dominic, who is residing at the home of Professor Stanciulescu and has developed a talent for speaking in tongues. Meanwhile, invisible to human eyes, an alternate persona presents itself to Dominic as his "Other" from outside space and time. When Dominic asks for proof, the "Other" brings him two roses out of nowhere.