Time Travail

Harvey Morgenstern promises a way to beat time, but the cranky genius' time-machine is anything but impressive - a dusty old black-and-white TV in the basement, stuck on one channel and showing a table-leg out of the 1930s, the ghostly image of a conversation between two long-dead women, a pair of dogs in ancient and endless copulation. Harvey promises better things to his penniless assistant, Jerry Weizman: a way to slow down time and project himself back to loved ones . above all back to Rachel Rosen, dead in mysterious circumstances half a century earlier, and loved by both men in their youth. Jerry is sucked into Harvey's obsession and visits the past. But how much of their visions are subjective distortions brought on by drugs, alcohol, yearning or growing mental unbalance? And why has Harvey hired Jerry after decades of estrangement following Rachel's death? Is it to vengefully expose him to the time machine's lethal rays . the same radiation that is killing its inventor?