Youth Without Youth movie plot

In 1938, seventy-year-old linguistics professor Dominic Mattaiwas about to commit suicide, but was suddenly struck by lightning. Severely burned Dominic was treated by Romanian doctor Professor Stancuriscu. After recovery, Dominic found himself rejuvenated and split into another personality. Not only that, Dominic also has special functions such as dream learning, perspective, and mind shifting. In order to avoid the tracking of Nazi doctor Rudolf, Dominica went under a pseudonym in Switzerland, Romania, Malta, India and other places until the end of World War II. In the 1960s, Dominic met a woman named Villanicawhile climbing a mountain, exactly like his young fiancee Laura. Villanica and her friend were in distress in the mountains. After being rescued by Dominica, they had the ability to trace the beginning of language in dreams, but they accelerated their aging. On the one hand, Dominic hoped that Villanica would help him complete the book on the origin of language and time, but on the other hand, he did not want to see his lover die prematurely because of this, and he was in constant pain in the contradiction .