Christopher Reeve (Superman, The Remains of the Day) stars as playwright Richard Collier, who is visited as a college student by a strange old woman telling him to come back to her, giving him an antique time piece. Eight years later, Richard finds himself a success in his profession, but when he stays in an old hotel out in the country, he finds himself transfixed by a photo of a beautiful young actress named Elise McKenna (Seymour, Wedding Crashers) . Richard can't get her out of his mind, and in his studies, he finds that the woman in the picture and the old woman that visited him are one and the same. When he visits her home, he is saddened to learn that Elisa has passed away, but among her remaining belongings is a book that describes time travel, written by an old professor of his from his college days. Richard finds that it is possible to travel back in time under certain conditions, and through sheer determination and ingenuity, he finally meets the woman of his dreams -- back in 1912.