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A father and his teenage son set off around the world chasing one question — how can we truly live much longer? They come home with something deeper than science: how we live matters more. Because living longer makes no sense if we never actually live.
Two generations · two views · one quest — 39 countries and states · 5 continents · 100+ scientists
The story
Marek, a former ad executive turned late-in-life idealist, believes he's finally cracked the code to happiness: a simpler life, a renewed bond with his teenage son Alek, and a second chance. But that joy is shadowed by a ticking clock — he's in his 40s, and terrified he might not have enough time to enjoy it all.
Determined to change that, Marek cashes out his savings and proposes an epic plan: a one-year journey around the world with Alek to seek out the pioneers of longevity — scientists who claim we can slow, stop, or even reverse aging. Neither of them has ever touched a professional camera. Marek insists they film everything — for the world.
To 17-year-old Alek, it sounds like the opposite of a vacation. He agrees — reluctantly — hoping for time with his dad. What follows takes them from Harvard to Easter Island, from arguments to epiphanies, from tribal healers to celebrities. Alek starts to believe. Marek starts to listen. And the film, once about defying death, becomes something much more alive — a story of reconnection, redemption, and the fragile, fleeting beauty of being here now.
What's inside
It works on four levels at once — and you feel all of them. Pick a layer.
They set out looking for science, and they found it — the Buck Institute, Harvard, Stanford, Shanghai’s AI drug-discovery labs. A full-body MRI at Human Longevity. Blood drawn for David Furman’s “time machine.” The scientists don’t just explain it; they let a father and son feel it.
But the further they went, the wider the field became. They sat with healers and monks, with everyday biohackers testing on themselves, with doctors, athletes, chefs — and with philosophers. Longevity, it turned out, is not a branch of biology. It is a way of living, and the science is only one part of it.
Two generations, one year, one quest — and no escape from each other. They dived, walked, filmed, ate badly, laughed a great deal, and met extraordinary people side by side. They learned from the scientists, and far more from each other.
There were hard conversations neither of them could avoid. They went through them rather than around them, and came out closer, stronger and happier than they started. Eighty percent of the film is this — the growing up, not the data. It is the part people cry at.
Five continents of raw beauty: sequoias three thousand years old, New Zealand fjords from a red helicopter, the Nevada desert, sunrise ceremonies in Australia. And Rapa Nui — the end of the world — its volcanoes, its people, and the moai standing watch. Japan, a whole civilisation built on care and detail.
It was never only nature. It was the cultures, and the people inside them. Living all of it shoulder to shoulder, father and son, was priceless — and the further they travelled, the harder this world pulled them in. Which is the film’s real question: what is the point of more years if you never actually live them?
At seventeen turning eighteen, Alek steps into adulthood beside his father. He arrives holding a camera he doesn’t know how to use; he leaves having shot a feature film, narrating it, and holding a microphone on a scientific stage.
Somewhere on the road the teaching starts running both ways — more than once it is the son explaining the world to the father. He learns about the world and about himself, and he understands, at eighteen, that he is ageing too, and that how he lives now is the decision. He went back to Europe to study a different person: one of the finest young videographers you’ll meet, a real partner to his father, and a speaker who can hold a big room. What an entry into adult life.
Told through his eyes
Marek is the main character, but the film is narrated by his son, Aleksander. It's a deliberate choice: if a teenager who knew nothing about longevity can fall in love with it, so can anyone watching. His voice is honest, funny and a little skeptical — the perfect guide. Eighty percent of the film is emotion and relationship; the science rides in on the back of a story you actually feel.
“The hardest — but ultimately the most exciting — part was navigating our evolving father-son relationship.”Marek & Aleksander Piotrowski · the quest, 2023–2024
Straight from the source
Captured in real conversations, on their own turf, all around the world.
“Aging is not a rare disease. It is the most common disease — it will kill 90% of us.”George Church · Harvard & MIT · the father of genetics
“We've spent thousands of years convincing ourselves aging is natural. It's not. It's just… untreated.”Aubrey de Grey · founding father of the longevity field
“Longevity is about living well today. I've never worked a day in my life — science is joy.”Eric Verdin · CEO, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
“If your blood isn't singing for who you are and what you do, then your life is being wasted.”Srikumar Rao · mindset & purpose
“I did it to myself first. If we believe gene therapy can end age-related disease, someone has to go first.”Liz Parrish · Founder & CEO, BioViva
“Ageing is modifiable. The question is no longer whether — it's how soon we act on it.”Andrea Maier · Professor · Chi Longevity
Also featuring: Craig Venter · Brian Kennedy · Andrea Maier · Liz Parrish · Sir Muir Gray · Allison Duettmann · Steve Horvath · David Furman · Evelyne Bischof — + 90 more across 39 countries and states.
Guided by two maps
Marek & Alek travel it to learn what longevity means — an orange ribbon guiding them from place to place, stop by stop, around the globe. Alek traces the quest on it, night after night.
The helicopter view of the whole field, built along the way — and the very backbone of the series that follows. Explore the Map →
Why this, why now, why this way
Longevity must move from the shoulders of scientists to the hearts of the people.
You reach the masses through emotion, not data. A father and son travelling the world is a story everyone recognises — parents, teenagers, anyone with an ageing parent. And it carries the real message: a longer, healthier life is built on mindset and the relationships we keep. Inspire 100 million people, and the future arrives sooner — in our lifetime.
Where it stands
Not a pitch for something that might exist. A film that's almost finished, and a series already largely in the can.
Complete and deeply moving. What remains is final mastering — music, colour grade and finishing touches.
Enough already captured for 9–10 episodes × ~30 min, drawn from 100+ interviews. Ready to cut.
The movie shows barely a fraction of the 100+ interviews. It's the pilot — the entry point to everything that follows.
The continuation
We filmed more than 500 hours of interviews on the quest. Less than one per cent of it is in the movie.
The film is the emotional introduction — ninety minutes to fall in love with the idea. Everything else we were told is what the series is for: the science underneath each answer, the protocols, and the places where the world’s best experts flatly disagree with each other. Deeper, and still funny, still emotional, still a father and a son working it out on camera.
It is built as a game, because longevity really is one: learn the rules, become a player, start winning. Animated avatars of Marek & Alek that level up, a live projected-lifespan score, Insight-Boost cards, and a mission at the end of every episode.
The Player’s Toolkit. Mindset and purpose, nutrition, movement, sleep, relationships — what all 100+ agreed on, and the handful of things they argued about.
2 episodesSupplements and smart meds, cold, heat, light, breath, wearables, even psychedelics — what the experts take themselves, and what they told us not to bother with.
2 episodesGene and cell therapies, reprogramming, organ regeneration. No longer science fiction — and we sat with the people building it.
2 episodesDon’t die of something stupid. Biomarkers, imaging, AI diagnostics, early detection — the bridge that keeps you alive long enough for the rest to arrive.
2 episodesPlay together. Community, ambassadors, culture — the level that decides whether any of this reaches people who are not already looking. The most important one.
1 episodeOpen to co-create dedicated storylines for the world's biggest markets — China (1.4B), India (1.4B), Latin America (660M).
Who made it
Shot mainly by Aleksander and Marek, carrying their own cameras across five continents. Kamil Rydzewski was with them for about a fifth of the road, and on a video call for much of the rest — lighting, sound, and setting the frame from the other side of the world. One year of travelling, a second year of the extra shooting the film needed, and three years from the first day of filming to today.
Beyond the movie & the series
One movie and one series are only the opening move. Then: a new film every year — each opening a new span of life, for a new audience of millions. 1 · The movie — fall in love. 2 · The series — start playing. 3 · The flywheel — grow together.
Join now and be first at the pre-screenings — then let's change your life, and the culture, together.
