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If you were given eternal life, would it be a blessing or a curse? In the Middle Ages, Fosca, the monarch of the Italian city-state, was a ruler who worked hard to govern, but he felt that he could not govern a country well in a short life and hoped to live forever. He accidentally got the elixir, and after taking it, he got rid of the threat of death. He sang all the way and made his country the overlord of Italy, but instead it attracted the invasion of France. He felt that a divided country could not last long and must control a unified universe, so he dedicated his country to the Holy Roman Empire and acted as the emperor's counselor. But instead of building a super-empire as he wished, the emperor was busy suppressing rebellions everywhere, and eventually the empire fell apart. Fosca later came to America and Canada, and also participated in the French Revolution and the British labor movement. Finally he realized the true meaning of life...

A mysterious immortal body has witnessed six hundred years of historical changes in Europe and the United States. It is a nightmare that will never end. Family, love, and friendship are all the ultimate nothingness. French existentialist leader, founder of the feminist movement, winner of the Goncourt Prize, author of "The Second Sex" representative work of Beauvoir: In the 19th century, Regina, a drama actress who was unwilling to be mediocre, accidentally picked up a man suspected of being mentally ill, Fosca, and unexpectedly learned that this man came from the 13th century and had an immortal body... Regina then longed to possess him and transform him to have eternal love. She abandoned her lovers and friends, gave up her career, and shared his life experience for him, but she finally realized that she was just like the other men and women in his life.