adeline spending decades afraid to truly let someone into her life just makes her story with ellis hit so much harder. Plot: The Age of Adaline (2015) follows Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively), a woman who mysteriously stops aging at 29 after surviving a near-fatal accident. As the decades pass and everyone around her continues growing older, Adaline is forced to constantly change her identity and avoid forming lasting relationships in order to keep her secret hidden. Her daughter Flemming (Ellen Burstyn) becomes one of the only people who knows the truth. After years of keeping others at a distance, Adaline meets Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman), whose persistence and genuine feelings challenge the isolated life she has created for herself. Their relationship becomes even more complicated when Adaline meets Ellis’s father, William (Harrison Ford), who recognizes a connection to her past.