The film is opened with fine a grip in on a lot of un' old on its bed of died nell' hospital. Theres a terrible storm that is infuriated outside of the window. Clearly in the pain, l' old is fighting in order to speak and its daughter (Julia Ormond) is to its side of the bed. We can say the mother we are to the conclusion of its life because when grida outside in the pain and its daughter it goes to take l' nurse, l' nurse says to it that she can have tan pain drug as she wants. The daughter has come to say good bye to its mother, but their relationship seems strained. The woman asks in a voice weak person its daughter to carry them a diary from its personal effects and to read it she. Being similar of the diary to a newspaper with the glue tickets and photographies the pages. The daughter begins to read from the diary and turns out to be the history of Benjamin the history of Button.That begins with l' old, daisy, reminiscing approximately a clockmaker blind that a clock for the large one has constructed finish center them them to New York. While it was constructing l' clock, its only son is extinguished to war (WWI) and dice in the battle. With its pain, it continues to construct l' clock. Revealing dell' clock is a great event with the president Theodore Roosevelt on hand. When l' clock is revealed, l' used amazing it turns in counter-clockwise sense and l' clock is measuring the time behind. The crowd is jolt and the clockmaker it reveals that it wishes that movement of time behind in fashion to be able to invert the events of the war and that all the soldiers who are died can send back their families. Soon since then, the clockmaker it closes its store and it disappears. Then we have cut to the conclusion of the world war of 1918. During the ways of New Orleans, people are submergeeing the ways in the celebration. A young person (father of Benjamins), however, is sliding fast to house in order to verify its wife whom it has given to the light hardly. Its wife seems hemorrhaged during the delivery and is on the edge of the dead women. The presence of the clergyman who has come to give to its last rituals confirmation Before this that he takes to it l' last breath, asks its husband to assess that their child has a place in this world. The promises of the father of Benjamins and soon since then the mother expires. She approaches herself the greppia and l' participation nurse tries to perceive it, but grida outside nell' horror when she raises the blanket and she sees its son for the first time. Then she seizes the child and she tears from the hatch. She works crazy in the way with the child who grida sfrenatamente and finally arrests itself to the bank of the river. She contemplates to throw the child in the river when she arrests it to a policeman she chases and it. The father of phrenetic Benjamins works via and finally he arrests himself to the porch of great house. People feel all' inside of the then impulsive house and arranges its child on the points of the house and leaves what money has with the child. In the second ones, a young black brace exits from the house. Theyre that it flirts with mutually, completely unaware of of the child. They begin to come down the scales and one of they nearly releases on the child. The woman, Queenie, take the child and see that Benjamin is similar to a ottuagenario infant. In spite of the protests of its husband, she decides to take the child within. She introduces the child in the house she puts and it in the advanced drawer of its sizer. When the doctor examines Benjamin, she says to it that the child suffers dall' arthritis, is nearly blind from the cataracts and has osteoporosis. Nobody to invite the child to survive long. Incapable to have a child of its own, Queenie decides that Benjamin is a child of the God and undertakes the elevation responsibility he. Benjamin calls and it introduces the old renters of the house (shes that they make to work a house of rest) like its child of the sisters. The old renters seem to be impassible dall' unusual appearance of the Benjamins. A old woman even finds that she is similar its former husband hardly. In the course of next years, we see Benjamin to pass to its first years like drink, delicate and bald old man with the glasses when in fact, it has only 5 years. It calls the Mama di Queenie and its manierismo and impulses are much children’s. Even if the hes completely developed in the format, Queenie bathes still it reproaches and it like a child when it tries to ramble outside. It begins to learn to read but it cannot walk and it is limited to a wheelchair. Then l' a day, takes it to Queenie to a healer evangelical. After sterility of guarigione Queenies, it orders Benjamin to walk during the dramatic guarigione. After that Benjamin inciampa and undertakes its first action, the predicatore falls without warning to the pavement and dies. Progredice Benjamin physically, being able to walk for means of the grucce. Soon befriends a pigmeo man charming that he takes Benjamin in the city and seems to be connected over their oneness. When the pigmeo leaves Benjamin in order to visit a prostitute, Benjamin loses l' last tram and it must walk to house on its grucce. Even if it receives it to Queenie with reproaching hard, Benjamin remembers its first taste of freedom like one of better days of its life. Queenie throws a party to the house of rest for the hosts and Benjamin, now in a position to walking without grucce, soon will meet the grandaughter of one of the renters. Shes a remarkable girl red-haired with the blue eyes has called Daisy. Benjamin develops to a crushing from boy moment to it even if seems to be a old man. In its diary, Benjamin remembers this as the day has fallen nell' love with the daisy. During the party, Queenie announces that shes incinti and the Benjamin thinks a po' gelosi. Benjamin and the daisy forms a tie quickly. They goffer in on with the grandmother of Daisys like them law history of the children. The daisy is fast rend to contoere that Benjamin is ordinary old man because of its children’s senses. They spend much time with and rubacchiano outside a night in order to communicate but to be interfered from the grandmother of the Daisys that Benjamin accusation of the inadequate reasons. Queenie says Benjamin that hes no ordinary child, than hes a man-child and that it will comprise it badly to people. When Benjamin sends back to its room, its old roommate speaks about as it has been hit from lightning bolt seven times. Through the course of the film, the accidental circumstances in which have been hit from lightning bolt are revealed for the risate ones. Benjamin begins to develop itself physically and can now be bathed and seems to pass with pubert