March 18, 2263 — Luc Besson's birthday, encoded into the film as an Easter egg — is the date displayed on Korben Dallas's alarm clock when it wakes him for work as a New York taxi driver. It is also the day a young woman falls through the roof of his cab: Leeloo, the Fifth Element, a Supreme Being recreated from a recovered hand and carrying the only means of stopping the Great Evil from destroying all life.
