Ponce de Leon searched the New World for the fountain of youth before succumbing to a battle wound. But was he on to something—could we really live forever? And would we want to? Monks, physicists, and everyone in between offer individual musings which, taken together, send us on a philosophical journey into the realms of aging and immortality. Researchers have found that altering a single gene in a tiny nematode doubles its lifespan; the study has been successfully replicated in mice. If we lived in a world where the average human lived to 150, what would it look like? Or what if death were not related to age at all—what kind of paradigm shift would society undergo? Told with a quintessentially Scandinavian visual aesthetic, this film explores the human need to control both life and death and the seemingly age-old desire to live forever.  SB