Carlton was a rich old man who fell in love with Linda who wouldn’t be with him because of his age, so he used his wealth to make a number of surgical body replacements with a young physically fit man named Hans eventually becoming a young strong man again albeit retaining his elderly voice. But Linda rejected him again for now being poor and married the now old but rich Hans. Carlton is a lonely romantic who made rash but noble decisions for love, chivalrous, means-well, self-sacrificing.