Albert and Claude
When he's left behind by his fellow settlers, Claude searches for the Fountain of Youth with Albert, the expedition's former leader, whom he killed…
From the opening scene, our protagonist, Claude, takes a practical approach to his own mortality. Facing certain death alone and resourceless in the wilderness of the New World, he decides the only logical plan is to literally crawl into a hole and die. He is so single-minded and resolute that he seems unaware of the miles of tropical beaches and tranquility that surround him. What to most would seem a utopia, Claude regards as a wasteland. By turning the lens on Claude and his fellow settlers, we learn that despite the five centuries between us, we humans remain very much the same -- tethered to our loyalties, terrified of the unknown, and yearning to love and be loved.
