The film begins on the eve of 1900. H. George Wells has created a time machine that he is introducing to his colleagues for the very first time. He has a desire to travel into the future with the hope that he can put an end to all of the war and killing he sees in the world.
As he begins his travels into the future he is met with a stark reality: war is a mainstay in the world. Time changes, but man’s waging war does not. Moreover, Pal’s image of war is heightened with each new future George heads into. It becomes so horrific, the killing between men, that nature puts and end to it with a volcanic eruption that covers all of London, encasing it for hundreds of thousands of years.
When George arrives in the extreme future he believes it to be a paradise as the world has gone back to a natural state, producing vegetation and food the way he envisioned a peaceful earth to do. But he soon discovers that the war from man hundreds of thousands of years ago has continued to leave its mark. One group of people, the Morlocks have devolved into creatures that live beneath the earth feed on people; and the other group of people called the Eloi have become so conditioned by war that they respond to the warning sound of oncoming bombs as a need to seek shelter. But the reality is there hasn’t been war for a very long time, they are simply conditioned to believe there is danger. This is the trap the Morlocks use to lure them into their caves to eat them.
War has caused the de-evolution of mankind. And this is unacceptable to George who is determined to put an end to it. So much so that he risks leaving his time in order to ensure humanity is preserved and a new society is taught to grow and thrive hundreds of thousands of years into the future. George thus gives up his present life in order to preserve the future of the world.
