A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

Forrest Gump és un noi amb deficiències mentals no gaire profundes i amb alguna incapacitat motora que, malgrat tot, esdevindrà, entre altres coses, un heroi durant la Guerra del Vietnam. La seva persistència i bondat el portaran a aconseguir una gran fortuna, ser objecte del clam popular i a fer-se amb les més altes esferes socials i polítiques del país. Sempre sense oblidar Jenny, el seu gran amor des que era petit.