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New Yorker DANIEL CALLANAN may have been brought up in a Catholic household but he's a young lost soul drowning in hedonism, living in the shadow of a previous life. When he begins to experience hallucinatory flashbacks, he blames the visions on a lifestyle of recreational drugs, until he realises to his horror that he is actually staring through the eyes of another man sharing his reality.

Daniel seeks the help of hypnotherapist DR. GOLDBERG, who stirs the memories from the young man's childhood -- going further back, triggering the memories of the life before Daniel's, a life he recounts in fluent Polish Dr. Goldberg alerts a lawyer friend, ALEX KASDAN to his astonishing find.

Daniel, Dr. Goldberg and Kasdan begin to piece together the flashbacks, each one taking the three men deeper into the past life of ELIAS ZIMMERMAN, an expert of art and antiquities, who traded with a ruthless Nazi officer to save the lives of his family back in wartime Poland. Through the eyes of Elias, Daniel bares witness to a mesmerising account of one man's past life - and ultimate death.

Kasdan is intrigued by the accounts; war atrocities, Elias' murder, a revelation uncovered; clues to the whereabouts of a huge haul of missing religious treasures. A revelation for Dr. Goldberg when he discovers that Daniel has fallen for Kasdan's niece, HANNAH, on holiday here in NYC, a thousand miles away from her home in Israel.

Kasdan discovers that Elias' family escaped death, fled to Israel. This strong case for reincarnation has already caused a stir in the Israeli press and a media circus awaits the arrival of Daniel and Kasdan in the holy land. Hostility of some members of the Jewish community, none more so than from the family they wish to meet.

Someone who has a vested interest in this story is Elias' killer, HANS FRIEDRICH, now living under an assumed name as a rich art dealer in South Africa, plundering the antiquities of yet another culture with the same ruthlesss hand. Memories of his own past are triggered, his brutality as an SS Commander, the murder of Elias and the last defiant word spoken by the man who now shares Daniel's reality... "Gilgul".

A place and people erased by evil have found a voice.
Now that same evil will stop at nothing to silence it.

Friedrich hatches a plan to eradicate this threat to his future prosperity and liberty, which will ultimately endanger the lives of all those for whom Daniel cares for; Dr Goldberg, Kasdan and Elias' surviving family. Mossad have taken an interest in the reincarnation case, convincing Elias' wife ZOFIA and daughters to meet Daniel. Reluctantly Zofia meets Daniel, under the watchful eyes of a high-tech Mossad surveillance team, lead by a sceptic and survivor of extinction, agent Kasdan.To everyone’s surprise Kasdan reveals himself as the top Mossad operative working undercover in New York. Under severe scrutiny and interrogation from Kasdan  Daniel shows no conclusive evidence that he is Elias reborn until he is briefly left alone with Zofia's baby granddaughter. Daniel sends the child to sleep with a lullaby, 'Almonds and Raisins', recognised by Zofia, proof for her that Daniel is Elias.

Still dubious Kasdan  interrogates Daniel  further and  only the intervention of Hannah saves Daniel from further physical and mental punishment. After the shock of discovering that Hannah is actually working with Kasdan  as a  Mossad agent, the two grow steadily closer. Hannah believes Daniel, tells him that if he can lead them to the location of Elias’s body, the evidence will be undeniable - that Elias lives through Daniel. Accompanied by Hannah, Dr Goldberg and Kasdan, Daniel visits the hometown of his past in Poland. A painful journey of guilt, and uncomfortable truth revealed.

Daniel leads the party to the site of his murder - unearthed, they discover no remains. Mossad investigation is terminated. For Daniel, all hope is lost, a clash of personalities - his own. Elias drives Daniel on, forces him to return to the excavation site with Hannah  and Kasdan - recovering the bullet that killed him. Friedrich's hired hitmen have set a trap -- a firefight that costs Dr Goldberg and all but one of the hitmen their lives. The surviving hitman volunteers information to Kasdan, disclosing the whereabouts of Friedrich.

Mossad green light operation to snatch Friedrich from his fortified compound in South Africa. Daniel earns his place among the extraction team, joining Hannah and Kasdan at the tense climax. Stealth and precision eventually gives way to brute force and fire-power -- followed by a stand-off between Daniel,Kasdan and Friedrich in a vault filled with plundered antiquities. Believing Hannah to be dead, Daniel runs at Friedrich -- the Nazi empties bullets into Daniel -- who keeps coming -- his outer shell wounded but drawing strength from Elias. Friedrich then dies by the hands of Kasdan. . The spirit of Elias is set free -- the cycle of birth and rebirth continues.

Written by Anthony O’Leary

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In Development