This is my latest AI generated film from a script I wrote a while ago based on the true story of a woman Lasthenia of Mantinea who dressed up as a boy in order to attend Platos classes at the Academy in the 4th century BC. The legend which I invented said that she discovered the secret of immortality and created a paradise on earth somewhere in the Adaman islands. A young couple who study Plato at Grenadas university in 14th centurys Andalusia decide to embark on a perilous journey through oceans and deserts in order to find Lasthenia and her secret of immortality.
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00:19bord and old English frigate, the lookout calls.
00:22Skiff at sea.
00:24It looks like a swan-shaped golden cradle with a toddler dressed up in gold inside.
00:29In the cradle, the captain finds a golden book with strange Hebrew signs, which tells
00:34the story of a young student called Rachel, in Granada, in 1347.
00:40She describes the beautiful gardens of Alhambra.
00:43And, she talks about her fiancé, Henry, as she goes to meet him in the university classroom.
00:50Let's go to the university and get our course on Plato.
00:53Today's topic, Plato's teachings about the world of ideas of the academy.
00:58The course has already started, and the master is talking.
01:02Among Plato's disciples were two women of great intelligence and vast culture who did
01:07not hesitate to dress up as men in order to attend his teachings at the academy.
01:12One of them, Lasthenia of Mantinia transcribed a few of these private conversations.
01:18After Plato's death, Lasthenia decided to dedicate her life to her quest of the soul
01:22and of a better world she left for a long journey from where she never came back, even
01:27though it is thought that her search led her to the faraway land of India.
01:31A few people said that she created there a fabulous world and that she discovered the
01:35secret of immortality.
01:37Rachel, you know that our families will never admit to a union between us.
01:40Tomorrow morning at dawn, one of the ships chartered by my family is going to sail on
01:44the Mediterranean Sea.
01:45We will first ride to Almeria, where we will board a schooner sailing to Acre.
01:49From there, we will try to join a caravan to the Persian port of Ormuz.
01:53Then, we will sail again until the great Indian port of Mumbai.
01:56Once in India, we will be looking for Lasthenia of Mantinia and for her secret of immortality.
02:02They ride until dawn towards Almeria.
02:06When they reach the harbor, they immediately board a ship which is ready to sail away.
02:18After two days traveling, while they are sailing south of Sicily, the captain realizes that
02:24they have been spotted by pirates who are following them.
02:27Later, they are hit by a storm with waves so high that they break one of the masts.
02:33On board the frigate, one of the sailors wearing a beard and an eye patch observes Rachel and
02:39Henry behind their back.
02:42From Acre to Ormuz, they join a caravan to cross a hot desert riding camels with several
02:48sandstorms.
03:01In Ormuz, the trip continues by boat to India.
03:04Their falucca follows the coast, without any incidents, to the port of Mumbai.
03:10The small Jewish community of Mumbai warmly welcomes Rachel.
03:16She explains to an old rabbi that they are looking for a Greek woman who probably came
03:21here a long time ago, looking for the secret of immortality.
03:39The rabbi tells them to go to Calcutta.
03:42In Calcutta, they hear of a woman who came from very far away, leaving behind the legend
03:47of her deep insight, her freedom and beauty.
03:51Rachel and Henry find a small boat taking them to the Andaman Islands.
03:55The skipper is the same man who has been observing them since they left.
04:02They reach the island, land on the beach and walk deep into a forest, towards a mountain
04:08at the center of the island.
04:10At one point, a skeleton carrying a spear and decorated with multicolored feathers
04:15is attached to a tree.
04:17Suddenly, they hear a strange and deep voice saying,
04:20You who present yourselves in this magical land, forget what you know for certain, forget
04:25about fear, forget all forms of attachment, forget even your desires, and you will be
04:30fulfilled with the treasures of paradise on earth.
04:34They are stunned by the beds of huge multicolored flowers, fruit trees they have never seen
04:39before, fountains, waterfalls and rivers flowing around through the gardens.
04:45Birds come and greet them, flying and singing all around them.
04:49Large multicolored butterflies twirl around them, collecting nectar from flower to flower.
04:56In the middle of this dreamland, a small temple with Doric pillars stands on top of a hillock.
05:02Rachel and Henry bow in front a superb young woman dressed in the Greek style, who is
05:07sitting on the throne.
05:09L'Asthenia speaks.
05:10People of the Garden of Beauty, please welcome Rachel and Henry who come from very far away
05:16through continents and oceans in order to discover the secret of immortality, and to
05:20give a perfume of eternity to their love.
05:26What is the secret of all this?
05:28Are you the same Lashanea whose steps we followed since Athens and the Academy?
05:32How did you get here?
05:33How did you find out about this place?
05:34And how did you create such a wonderful world?
05:38Back at the Academy, dressed up as a boy I used to sit with the other students around
05:42Plato who was telling us the essence of his philosophy.
05:46Human beings keep hitting the wall at the bottom of the cave and they don't realize
05:50that what they believe to be the real world is just a pale and distorted reflection of
05:54the true values.
05:56The philosopher understands that all this excitement is merely an illusion, he then
06:00decides to explore the cave in order to find a way out.
06:04Our only religion rests on the clarity of soul consciousness.
06:08The purity of the soul and of nature is what guides our consciousness.
06:13Harmony in relationships is what links us together.
06:16The lamb is not afraid of the lion who seems as sweet as the lamb.
06:20All animals are your friends.
06:22They also experience inner peace which is the foundation of soul consciousness.
06:28The key of all philosophy the beginning and end of all spiritual search is who am I,
06:33or know thyself as inscribed in the pronos of the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
06:38We have been identified to our body for so long we have forgotten our true identity,
06:43but in fact I am not this body, I am a soul and I have a body, this new consciousness
06:49makes the whole difference, a different world, a different time.
06:53I am a spiritual energy and I cannot die, the body changes or dies, but I, the soul,
07:00am immortal.
07:01The volcano at the center of the island has awakened and threatens to fully erupt.
07:07The next day, more replicas shake the paradise.
07:10The Eden is going to disappear.
07:13Henry and Rachel know that they cannot escape.
07:16They are not afraid for themselves.
07:18But now, they have a secret of their own.
07:21From their union, a child is going to be born very soon.
07:24A few days later, during the strongest earthquake, Rachel gives birth to a beautiful baby boy
07:30who is crying.
07:32The baby has to live, we have to find a way for him to escape.
07:35I know a way through a stream that goes straight to the ocean.
07:40While the earth is moving, creating a panic in their small paradise, Rachel and Henry
07:45wrap up their crying baby in a gold cradle in the shape of a swan.
07:50Rachel carefully encloses her journal next to the baby in the cradle.
07:54They delicately let the cradle go down the narrow stream which goes inside the mountain,
08:00straight to the ocean.
08:01Holding each other with tears in their eyes, Henry and Rachel watch the cradle slide along
08:07the stream while everything is collapsing around them.
08:11Aerial view of the island with its central volcano, blasting red flames and thick gray
08:16smoke and destroying it.
08:18View of the island sinking and being engulfed in the ocean.
08:22Zoom on a tiny shiny point drifting away on the sea.
08:26The captain adopted the golden child and never told him about his origins.
08:31The doctor died during the return to Europe.
08:34The captain sent Rachel's journal to the Vatican where it is still today buried deep
08:38in their archives.