The Man from Earth: Holocene
One must pay dearly for immortality
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A cerebral, existentially weighted thriller about an immortal man confronting mortality and the dangerous knowledge of his true identity.
14,000-year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially destroying the world's most popular religion.
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