Portrait of Jennie

Jennie, a girl who speaks of long-gone events and carries a dated newspaper, reappears to the painter Eben every few weeks several years older, hurrying through time so he will wait for her to grow up. Their romance across eras is the whole film, and once Eben learns she died years earlier in a storm, he goes to the lighthouse on its anniversary to try to save her as the storm recurs. The temporal premise drives the story from first meeting to climax. It stops at 7 because it is never explained, involves no travel by Eben and plays equally as a ghost story, and the past cannot be changed.

Jennie appears at changing ages and the climax echoes a past storm; ghostly visitation versus literal temporal displacement remains ambiguous in consulted accounts.