Youth Without Youth

The events take place in Bucharest in 1938. Dominic Matei, an academic who has spent most of his life trying to complete a major work on the origin and structure of human language, is hospitalized after being struck by lightning. Miraculously he survives and, inexplicably, begins to transform into a young man. It is a cataclysmic transformation that gives him the opportunity to live a new life with astonishing intellectual capacity. Matei must change his identity to avoid submitting to medical experiments on a possible power that extends human life through electric shocks. To do so, he must embark on a decades-long odyssey through several countries in search of answers to the essential question of life:

"What to do with time?…"