Cynical Tim Jeffries has lost his job and is losing his wife as he sulks through life feeling sorry for himself. One night at a party, he is playfully regressed to a previous incarnation which dramatically transforms his personality with terrifying consequences. Under hypnosis, he reveals he was once a truly terrifying man from another time and country but when he comes back to the present, he can't seem to snap out of it and shake off the violent person he once was two centuries ago.