Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live if she does. The second story: Tommy despises his French tutor, and hates being a child. He wants moxia.cc to be an adult so he can do what he wants. He gets his wish, being transformed into a handsome young man for one evening, and learns about whole new side of his French tutor. Third story: Pierre Narval is trapeze artist who gave it up when his partner died doing a dangerous stunt at his bidding. He rescues Nina, a beautiful young woman, after she throws herself into the Seine, and convinces her to become his new aerial partner. Her husband had been killed by the Nazis during the war, and she blames herself. They fall in love, which is tested when Nina must perform the stunt which killed Pierre's former partner.
这是一个完美的海滩假日,至少有一家人、一对年轻夫妇、几个游客和一个流亡者都这么认为,他们来到了同一个幽静、田园般的小海湾,那里有岩石池和沙滩,四周环绕着绿油油的、植被茂密的悬崖。但这个乌托邦背后隐藏着一个黑暗的秘密:首先是在水晶般清澈的水中有一具漂浮的女性尸体。还有一个诡异的事实正在上演:所有的孩子都在迅速衰老。很快,每个人都都发现他们正在变老——每半小时一次——而且他们似乎没有任何办法离开这个小海湾。
沙马兰说这部电影是受到 Pierre Oscar Levy和艺术家Frederik Peeters创作的法国图画小说《沙堡》(Sandcastle)的启发。《沙堡》的故事里有13个人,他们无法离开一个神秘,僻静的海滩,那里隐藏着涉及时间的黑暗秘密。不过漫画里并没有给出这个时间谜团出现的原因,更像是一个关于生存与死亡预言故事。但《OLD》并不是直接改编自这部图像小说,所以沙马兰本人会来讲完这个故事和脑洞。