:55:07
There was an avalanche,
:55:11
the snow swallowed him up,
:55:14
and his body was never recovered.
:55:16
The end.
:55:18
No, not the end. The beginning.
:55:25
His son was just a
little boy at the time,
:55:31
but the years passed, and when he
grew up, he became a skier, too.
:55:38
One day last winter, he went out by
himself for a run down the mountain.
:55:45
He gets halfway to the bottom and then
stops to eat his lunch next to a big rock.
:55:54
Just as he's unwrapping
his cheese sandwich,
:55:59
he looks down and sees a body, right
there at his feet, frozen in the ice...
:56:08
He bends down
:56:10
to take a closer look,
:56:12
and suddenly he feels that
he's looking into a mirror,
:56:18
that he's looking at himself.
:56:20
There he is - dead - and
the body is perfectly intact,
:56:24
frozen in a block of ice
- like someone preserved in suspended animation.
:56:31
He gets down on all fours, looks
right into the dead man's face,
:56:41
and realizes that he's
looking at his father.
:56:48
And the strange thing is that the
father is younger than the son is now.
:56:58
The boy has become a man, and it turns
out that he's older than his own father.