Synopsis…
Jon Samuels, a successful artist at his relatively young age of twenty eight, has grown restless and frustrated with his life of late. Suffering from insomnia, the inevitable breaking point comes when - after a fight with his long-time girlfriend, Christine, and far too much to drink - he mistakenly takes too many sleeping pills and finds himself in the hospital. Convinced that he willingly attempted suicide, he feels alienated even from the ones he loves, yet sees life differently altogether. However, his brush with death gives him more than perspective. It gives him back the ability to sleep, along with dreams he can form as he wishes, and a guide in those dreams in the form of a dark-haired woman. Seeing her nightly, and speaking to her of his life despite the knowledge that she can’t be real, he falls in love with her. Yet soon the dream world begins to bleed into his own, and vivid hallucinations which haunt him, force him to question not only what is real or not, but which he concerns himself with. When he finds things in the dream which he knows he’ll never have in his life with Christine as their relationship begins to crumble, he must decide what he would rather have. Happiness and belonging in a world only real to him, or the attempt at reigniting love in a world that’s lost its beauty?
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