From NetFlix:

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola spins a unique love story that combines elements of suspense and science fiction. Set in pre-World War II Europe, the film follows an academic (Tim Roth) who’s metaphysically altered after being struck by lightning. This begins a spiritual journey through time toward divine love, a journey in which the professor grows younger and more enlightened even as his nation is on the brink of war.

Francis Ford Coppola takes chances, judging from this pseudo-sci-fi film. Such a slow, quiet, strange, imaginative film will not be to everyone’s taste.

After our hero is struck by lightning at the age of 70 his body transforms into a younger man who can speak many languages and has other powers. He also now has a double of himself and they converse a lot. He outwits the Gestapo who want him for experimentation. After the war a woman much younger than our hero is struck by lightning and becomes his partner. She goes into trances and speaks languages that are progessively more ancient. The hope is that eventually she will speak the proto language from which the other languages developed. But each trance ages her. So our hero has to leave her in order that she regain her youth.

Hope I didn’t give away too much, but with limited viewing time at your disposal, you probably don’t want to watch this unusual film.