forever young

Daniel McCormick, a 1939 test pilot, is as reckless as they come. He will fly anything with wings, dangerous or otherwise. After a successful run, Daniel is greeted by his longtime friend, Harry Finley, who confides that his latest experiment, "Project B", has succeeded in doing the impossible. The machine, built by Finley and his team of scientists, is a prototype chamber for cryonic freezing. When Daniel's fiancé Helen winds up in a coma from a car crash, and the doctors doubt she'll ever wake up, Daniel insists to be put in suspended animation.

Fifty-three years later, two boys playing around on the inside of a storage warehouse stumble onto the chamber (everyone has mistaken it for an old water heater). Twisting the dials, they accidentally activate the reversal process. During the confusion, Daniel's sleeping form reflexively grabs one of their coats. They flee in terror, and a short while later, Daniel wakes up... in 1992. After appropriating some shorts and a shirt from a clothesline, he first approaches the military about his experiences. When they dismiss him as a wacko, Daniel becomes all the more determined to find out what happened to Harry, Helen, and the world that has seemingly evolved overnight around him.

His search leads him to the home of Nat Cooper, one of the two boys who opened the chamber. Though the boys are initially scared, Daniel is able to calm Nat and his friend with the truth of his story. This bond is made stranger yet when Nat's mother Claire offers Daniel a place to stay, until he can find out what to do with his search. But Daniel's time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly, due to the years he spent in stasis.