Youth Without Youth

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Youth Without Youth



1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. Then, he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some years later, he meets a young woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new ab! ilities hold the key to his research. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance Thriller

Release year: 2007