Being Human

This strange, episodic series of fables features Robin Williams who plays Hector in each of the five historical vignettes. The film begins on a beach as the modern Hector's wife tells him five short stories. In the first he is a Bronze Age caveman who loses his whole family to raiders. In the second, he is a Roman slave in love with another slave. He has a really stupid master who wants him to participate in a suicide pact. In the third he is a medieval wanderer trying to return to his home country. He travels with a luscious widow who tries to coerce him to stay in her country. In the fourth, he is shipwrecked on a desolate African coast. There he tries to make up to his former lover while the rest of the crew tries to survive. In the last, he is a divorced New York entrepreneur who spends a weekend with his estranged children. In each of the episodes Hector is a rather simple man who seeks love, family, and bonding. Each episode involves some sort of journey.