When her boyfriend slashes a painting, adding a detail that Emma had dreamed but not rendered, he brings her waking world into alignment with her dreaming life.
Emma questions whether she paints what she dreams or dreams what she will have painted. Frightened by this new possibility, Emma seeks a counselor. But after months of talk therapy she has only talked her way around the truth.
When Emma's boyfriend threatens other artwork, he winds up in the emergency room and she meets a new man as troubled by his history as she is by hers. He completes another dreaming image, one that both frightens and attracts her.
Emma must choose whether to confront the sum of their combined darkness, forging an intimate connection, or remain isolated, living in a half-awake world, denying the truth of her past and, thus, the promise of her future.
But does this new man manifest a dream or a nightmare?
