The Time Machine

Synopsis

'i had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeles trap that ever a man devised'when a victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802, 70 ad, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childdishly afraid of the dark.