Da Eik Skaløe, forsanger i hippiebandet Steppeulvene, begår selvmord i Indien i 1968, bliver han med det samme til en myte. I 2011 beslutter Johan Knattrup Jensen sig for at rejse i Eik Skaløes fodspor, dog med et håb om at overleve. Han medbringer en digtsamling, en notesbog og sin tykke producer, Mikkel Kastberg. Sammen vil det umage par finde vejen gennem det store, fantastiske Indien til paradiset, der ligger lige på kanten af forstanden.
Hvilke spor efterlader de mennesker, vi mister? Hvordan vi bærer dem og deres fortællinger med videre? Den Geniale Epoke viser en familie i sorg over en afdød far. Gennem to tidsrum føres vi ind i fraværets tilstedeværelse i et stille portræt om kærlighed og erindring.
Dana welcomes art student Penelope to her home to participate in her performance. The meeting between both women takes an unexpected turn for Dana and leaves her disturbed. To find out what actually has happened between them, Dana takes her courage and confronts Penelope at the opening of Penelope's graduation show.
Kira is a single mother struggling to build a better relationship with her distant teenage daughter, Lina. One day, Kira has a bright idea that she believes could pave the way for a stronger bond between them. In her attempt to make the idea a reality, enticing shadows of the past start catching up with her.
In a near future, where a pill can extend only women's lives by 400 years, and men everywhere lose influence as a result, we meet the now-deposed Prime Minister, Kim Harding, as he gathers a group of aggrieved men behind him in an attempt to regain power and influence. Everything is going according to plan, until Kim's disciple, the younger, angrier and more idealistic man, Karl, wins over the group and challenges Kim in an internal struggle for power and honor. Life and death.