In a retro-future the aging gene has been switched off, at 25 years
old aging stops. To avoid overpopulation after 25 each person is given
just one more year to live and stamped on their arm is a running clock
of how long they have left, once the clock reaches zero they die. Time
has therefore become the new currency, people earn time by working and
spend it to pay for everyday necessities; for example in the film a
coffee costs 4 minutes and a day's labor in a factory will earn a worker
about 24 hours. Time can also be stolen or robbed from another person.
The rich, however, can live forever. The two communities are completely
separate; to keep it this way, it costs a whole year just to enter a
wealthy area.
A wealthy man named Henry Hamilton (Matt Bomer) goes to a bar in a poor area, having over a hundred years left on his clock. He attracts some unwanted attention from a gang of robbers who try to steal his time, but is saved by local poor man Will Salas (Justin Timberlake). Hamilton explains to Salas that he is 105 years old and tired of life;
A wealthy man named Henry Hamilton (Matt Bomer) goes to a bar in a poor area, having over a hundred years left on his clock. He attracts some unwanted attention from a gang of robbers who try to steal his time, but is saved by local poor man Will Salas (Justin Timberlake). Hamilton explains to Salas that he is 105 years old and tired of life;
Later, while Salas is asleep, Hamilton transfers his time to Salas. Waking up, Salas discovers he now has over 116 years on his clock. Out the window, he sees Hamilton sitting on the edge of a bridge as his time runs out. He dies, falling into the shallow water of a storm drain.
Salas is accused of Hamilton's murder and he is forced to go on the run from a corrupt FBI-like police force known as the "Timekeepers" led by Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy), as well as from a hoodlum-like middle-aged mob called the "Minutemen", led by a senior citizen named Fortis (Alex Pettyfer), who is 75 years old.
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