The plot concentrates on John Oldman, a withdrawing college teacher, who cases to be a Cro-Magnon (or Magdalenian stone age man) who has furtively made due for over 14,000 years. The whole film is set in and around Oldman's home amid his goodbye party and is made completely out of dialog. The plot propels through scholarly contentions in the middle of Oldman and his kindred employees.
Plot
The film starts with Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith) pressing his effects onto his truck, planning to move to another home. His associates appear to give him an offhand goodbye party: Harry (John Billingsley), a researcher; Edith (Ellen Crawford), a craftsmanship history teacher and sincere Christian; Dan (Tony Todd), an anthropologist; Sandy (Annika Peterson), a student of history who is infatuated with John; Dr. Will Gruber (Richard Riehle), a therapist; Art (William Katt), an excavator; and his understudy Linda (Alexis Thorpe).
As John's associates press him to clarify the purpose behind his takeoff, he gradually, and fairly reluctantly, uncovers that he is an ancient cave dweller who has lived for over 14 centuries, and that he migrates at regular intervals to keep others from understanding that he doesn't age. He starts his story under the pretense of a conceivable sci-fi story, however in the long run quits talking in hypotheticals and starts noting questions from a first-individual point of view. His partners decline to trust his story. John proceeds with his story, relating how he was a Sumerian for a long time, a Babylonian, and in the long run went east to wind up a pupil of Gautama Buddha. He claims to have been allowed to cruise with Christopher Columbus (conceding that at the time despite everything he trusted the earth was level) and to have gotten to know Van Gogh (one of whose unique works of art he clearly possesses, a blessing from the craftsman himself).
Over the span of the discussion, each of John's associates addresses his story taking into account learning from his or her own particular scholarly strength. Harry, the researcher, battles with how science could take into account the likelihood of a person living for so long. Craftsmanship, the excavator, questions John about occasions in ancient times. He shouts that John's answers, however right, could have originated from any course book. Will, the therapist, questions if John feels blame for outlasting everybody he has ever known and adored, and debilitates John with an (emptied) firearm before (incidentally) clearing out. John then gains from the gathering that Will's wife had passed on the earlier day after a long ailment.
The dialog swings to the point of religion. John specifies that he is not an adherent of a specific religion; however he doesn't inexorably have faith in a transcendent God, he doesn't rebate the likelihood of such a being's presence. Squeezed by the gathering, John reluctantly uncovers that, in attempting to convey Buddha's teachings toward the West, he turned into the motivation for the Jesus story. After this disclosure, feelings in the room run high. Edith starts crying. Will requests that John end his story and give the admitting so as to gather a feeling of conclusion it was every one of the a fabrication. John seems to ruminate over his reaction before at long last apologizing to everybody for driving them on.
John's companions leave the gathering with different responses: Edith is alleviated; Harry demonstrates a receptive outlook. After everybody except Will and Sandy has left, Will catches John and Sandy's discussion, which proposes the story was valid all things considered. John says a percentage of the pen names has utilized throughout the years, and Will acknowledges one was his dad's name. Stunned to understand the imperishable man is his own dad, Will endures a heart assault and passes on. After Will's body has been taken away, Sandy understands this is the first run through John has seen one of his developed kids kick the bucket. John silently gets in his truck and begins to drive to an obscure destination, then stops to sit tight for Sandy. Sandy joins John in the truck and they head out.
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