Nomads is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by John McTiernan, adapted from the novel of the same name by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, and Anna Maria Monticelli. The story involves a French anthropologist who is an expert on nomads. He stumbles across a group of urban nomads who turn out to be more than he expected.

Plot

In a Los Angeles city hospital, Jean-Charles Pommier, a French anthropologist, is brought into the emergency room. Despite being badly beaten, he keeps resisting the doctors' attempts at treating him and does not stop shouting at them in French. However, no one can understand him. Moments after he dies, one of the physicians treating him, Dr. Eileen Flax, becomes possessed with his memories. While seeing bits of Pommier's life through his eyes, Flax has an accident and gets knocked out. When she wakes up, she gets out of the hospital without telling anybody and continues reliving Pommier's life, visiting the places he was at as they come up in her visions.