The Fountain

A conquistador storms a Mayan pyramid where, according to Franciscan intelligence, the Fountain of Eternal Life is hidden. A thousand years later, his double drifts through space in a glass sphere, moving painfully toward some mysterious destination. And halfway between the Spanish warrior and the cosmic traveler, in a modern American research lab, an oncologist struggles to save his wife dying of a fatal tumor. The frail woman, in delicate calligraphy, writes a novel — about the conquistador and the astronaut.

A visually stunning, hypnotic, and deeply philosophical fable.