Time After Time is a most unusual love story, written as a screenplay. It is a story about a history professor who undergoes hypnosis to overcome his nightmares and regresses to his past life as a Civil War soldier. There, he meets his soul mate but loses her, and becomes desperate to find her again in his present life. Although his search is complicated by other characters, plot twists, and his own failings, he eventually learns important lessons about eternal love.