Imagine Mr. Button’s surprise the day he laid his eyes on his new born son.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Button’s baby was unlike any other new born, for he was a baby who looked like a seventy year old man, who would speak and act like a grandfather with a cane. Mr. Button could not bear the humiliation in the tied-up society he lived in. But after years had gone by, and old Benjamin grew younger, he fell in love, got married, got bored, and then got a son who ironically enough became his father in a very curious reverse of time.