There is a doctor, an older gentlemen whose wife has passed on. He has a picture, an old faded one, of her hanging on the wall. Also he has a rose she gave him. He’s got a vase full of water supposedly from the fountain of youth. He wants to experiment with it and so he invites three of his friends over, one used to be a successful politician, before doing something or other to ruin his reputation, then slowly fading into mediocrity. Another was once a beautiful young lady who loved to play with mens affections, now just an old widow. And the third dealt with money, unfortunately he used it incorrectly in very unintelligent ways, he also, had faded into nothing. The Doctor gave them the water, convincing them to try it by using it on the rose first. They loved it, but instantly fell back into their old ways, rather then mending them, the woman taunted the two men, loving the fact that they both wanted her. The two men began to fight over the woman and had thoughts of pursuing the things that had corrupted them when they were young. They broke the vase with the water, and then faded back into being old once again. The three old people were making plans to locate the fountain of youth.