![]() He lives day by day, making just enough to pass each day sharing time currency with his perpetually youthful mother, Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde). Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is a young man living in Dayton, a poor ghetto in the southwest USA. The time is used as currency, you can earn more at work but you sell it for goods and other services. Thanks to scientific advances people can stop aging at 25, but it comes with a catch: after reaching 25 a person is genetically-engineered to live only one more year. A voiceover describes the state of the world.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. He lets her go but when she's in danger Will saves her and they decide to work together to take down the system. He goes back to his time zone and asks for a ransom but when her father doesn't give it. Will then takes Sylvia hostage and runs off with her. A law enforcement office known as a Timekeeper who's investigating the death of the man who gave Will his time, assumes that Will stole it. He then meets a girl named Sylvia whose father is the one behind the system. Will goes off to share it with his mother but she dies because of inflation. While Will is sleeping he gives Will his time and walks off to die. Will Salas, a decent guy saves him but he tells Will that he wanted to die because he's tired of a system wherein someone has to die for others to live. One of the residents of Greenwich wanders into the poor section where someone sees how much time he has which is 100 years and wants to steal it. The richest live in the Greenwich section. Society's classes are divided into what they call time zones. Those who trade it can live for more than a 100 years. In a future society people have been engineered not to age once reaching 25 but can only live for one more year as time is now the currency. ![]() Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sylvia feels how despicable her father is and together with Will, they steal a large quantity of time to fight against the system. Will flirts with Sylvia Weis, who is the spoiled daughter of the millionaire Philippe Weis, in a party and when Raymond arrests him, Will Salas kidnaps Sylvia and brings her to the ghetto where he lives. Will heads to New Greenwich but the timekeeper Raymond Leon believes that he killed Henry to steal his time. Will runs to meet his mother Rachel Salas to credit time to her but she dies before the transference. ![]() When Will sleeps, Henry gives more than one hundred years to him and commits suicide. When the worker Will Salas saves the rich Henry Hamilton from a dangerous gang of thieves, Henry tells that he is 105 years old and is tired of living, since there is no need for the deaths in the unfair society. Thieves steal time and the timekeepers control the society. Time is a currency and the wealthy that live in the New Greenwich are immortals while the poor live in ghettos in time zones are exploited and forced to live with a few hours or days, and need to work, borrow, beg or steal to stay alive. In a future society, people are genetically modified to stop aging at twenty five and after that a clock is activated with one more year for each citizen.
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