Pandora's Box

One evening in a hypnosis theater—“Pandora’s Box”—turns the life of an ordinary history teacher, René Toledo, upside down. He didn’t expect that a hypnosis session with a red-haired stage magician he agreed to out of politeness would throw him into the trenches of World War I. And he couldn’t imagine that just minutes later, a person would die on the Seine embankment because of him—and the corpse would be cowardly tossed into the river. How could René have guessed that just a couple of days later he would learn that his soul is from the legendary Atlantis and that he must save his ancient “self” from a destructive cataclysm to preserve the memory of the Atlanteans for centuries? Everyone tells René that he’s gone mad, but he knows that nothing is more fragile—and more powerful—than human memory. Now René faces a difficult choice: to follow the truth hidden in his past lives, or to admit that he’s sick…