After a demonstration of the Random Generator goes wrong, physicist Colin Trafford (Tom Bell, THE KRAYS) finds himself in an alternate timeline where he is a successful playwright unhappily married to Otillie (Joan Collins, FEAR IN THE NIGHT), who he finds himself falling for. With the help of physicist Professor Larnstein (Lawrence Naismith, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS), he convinces Otillie that he is not the man she married and they fall in love again. Colin learns from Tom (Denholm Elliot, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) - his friend in his own timeline and his enemy here - that Otillie is dying of a heart condition. Colin learns that the medical treatment that could save her life was never developed in this timeline. Before Otillie dies, she makes him promise her to find her other self in his own timeline. Trafford is returned to his timeline and falls into a bout of depression before realizing that he must find the other Otillie, who was born with the same condition and may be living on borrowed time. Based on the short story "Random Quest" by John Wyndham (better known to readers as the author of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS, which was the basis for the film VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED), "Random Quest" has also been adapted for British television twice (once in 1969, and then again in 2006). The big screen adaptation by Ralph Tomas (director of the Simon Sparrow "Doctor" series with Dirk Bogarde) is a frustrating watch, neither satisfying as science fiction or romance. The revelations in the alternate timeline that World War II never happened and JFK was never assassinated serve only to make clear to Colin that he is in a different reality. Colin's search for the other Otillie comprises the last twenty minutes of the film, so there is little time to develop their relationship. Bell is good but constantly upstaged by Eric Rogers' lush orchestral score (which sounds like it would be more appropriate in a period romance) and Collins balances bitchiness and sympathy (as she did in Sidney Hayers' REVENGE, her other film for producer Eric Rogers). Elliot is underused while Naismith gives the liveliest performance.