Jonathan Ade

Bern's got an eye problem and does not want to leave the house. Light hurts him, and so does life. So he calls upon his sister-in-law Linds, who's working through grad school as a waitress but is the closest thing to a doctor he's got. As the only frustrated family left in his life, she drags him onto the streets with a pillowcase over his head to face a "real" doctor and his own anxieties.

Driven by a desire to live forever through cinema, aspiring filmmaker Nathaniel Heaton sets out to fuse his life into the narrative of a movie in this film-within-a-film. Both a dreamer and a romantic, Heaton escapes his estranged relationships, professional failures, and concerns of mortality by retreating more and more into the world of the movie that exists in his imagination... a world where gangsters close in and a struggling old nightclub prepares for what may be its final show.