Adaline Bowman yavukiye i San Francisco mu 1908. Mu 1937, agira impanuka ikomeye—imodoka ye igwa mu mukingo, agapfa mu mazi akonje. Ariko igitangaza kiraba: inkuba ikubita imodoka ye, ikamusubiza ubuzima… ariko kuva icyo gihe, Adaline ntiyongera gusaza. Aguma afite imyaka 29, imyaka yose ikurikiraho.

Kubera iyo mpinduka idasanzwe, Adaline atangira kubaho mu bwihisho. Buri myaka icumi, ahindura izina, yimuka, kandi yirinda gukundana cyangwa kugira inshuti za hafi—ngo hatagira umenya ibanga rye. Umukobwa we, Flemming, arakura, ariko nyina aguma ari muto.

Ibyo byose bihinduka igihe ahuye na Ellis Jones, umugabo w’umunyamuryango, w’umunyabwenge kandi w’umunyamurava. Urukundo rwe rutuma Adaline yongera kwibaza ku buzima bwe, ku bwigunge bwe, no ku cyemezo cyo kubaho mu bwihisho. Ariko igihe Ellis amujyana kumusura ababyeyi be, Adaline ahura n’umusaza wigeze kumukunda mu myaka yashize—noneho akamumenya.

Ni inkuru y’urukundo, ibanga, n’uburyo umuntu ashobora kubaho imyaka ijana ariko akabura amahirwe yo gukunda by’ukuri. The Age of Adaline itwereka ko urukundo nyarwo rudashira, nubwo igihe cyabihindura byose.