Somewhere outside of time as we understand it is the timeless realm known as Eternity, where a group of highly trained technicians – drawn from all the Centuries under their control – have manipulated the Earth’s history to transform it into what they believe to be a perfect world, free from every disaster and hardship. But when Senior Computer Twissel sends a young Technician named Harlan to study the 480th Century in the company of a seductive woman, Harlan begins to suspect that Twissel may have some secret plan of his own which has something to do with the forbidden centuries before time travel was invented...

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.

影片根据菲利普·悉尼爵士生前日记中关于匈牙利人民抗击土耳其侵略军的记述改编的。事件和人物大多是真实的。影片生动地再现了匈牙利历史上著名的埃格尔要塞争夺战。