Blue sky and buildings, two kids walk through a high desert forest and field. They find a mushroom under a tall pine. It transforms into a glass box, inside is a black cube stone. Dylan takes it and Leah takes some beads that were outside the box. She writes " It's a magical day" in her journal. They walk back home. Soon or possibly the next day, Leah's family moves away and Dylan is very upset. Leah hangs out the car window waving, very unsafely. She has laced the magical beads into a bracelet. V/O informs us that Dylan never saw Leah again after that day.
Cut to present day, Dylan (Neil Breen) is now an adult married to Emily (Klara Landrat). While talking to Emily on his cell phone, Dylan approaches a cross walk. He has a walk sign but is hit by a car. Luckily he's holding the special black cube stone he found as a kid. From the car accident, he has severe head trauma. People show up to help but all we see are their feet. The lady who hit him gets out of the car but we don't see her face.
Dylan is taken to the hospital. He has a cast that covers three quarters of his face, including his nose and mouth, but on top of that is an with an oxygen mask. Emily comes to visit. She kept talking to him on the phone after he got hit by the car. The first doctor says Dylan is in critical condition. They bring in a Neurologist, it's Leah (Jennifer Autry)! But Dylan can't see her because of his face cast and Leah reveals later she didn't read his name on his chart anyway. She checks his pulse. Dylan's good friend Jim (David Silva) comes to visit him too. Maybe with the connection from Leah's bracelet is how Dylan got better, but he rips out two IV's that are taped to his arm and walks out of the hospital. Yes, we see his butt hanging out of his gown, more Breen nudity to come! He walks home, still bleeding from his head. He gets in the shower, and Emily gets in too with her slip on. Dylan keeps bleeding from his head as Emily hugs him and tries to kiss his face cast.
The doctors figure out Dylan left, but they can't do anything about it. Feeling better, Dylan tries to work on his next book that his publisher keeps bugging him about. Dylan's office has a bunch of laptops but they are never turned on.
After Dylan's head injury, he starts to space out and go to his void and black plastic walled place where he's naked. Dylan stops taking his pills but Emily starts taking them. They fight about her pill addiction. Dylan goes to his pyschotherapist in a giant conference room. He is prescribed the medication that Emily takes.
Meanwhile, the other couple Jim and Amy (Victoria Viveiros) get drunk and fight. They don't have sex anymore, but Amy's job at the office at the bank is very stressful. Every woman in this movie wears tank tops and jeans. Dylan and Emily invite them over for wine, beer and sliced bread dinner. Dylan ask Jim's daughter Aly (Danielle Andrade) about school projects, but Jim says Dylan wouldn't be interested in that stuff but he is and that means a lot to Amy.
Dylan keeps hacking. Dylan and Emily reconnect in his office by throwing books, computers and papers off the desk then rip each other's shirts off and then have "sex." They invite Amy and Jim and Aly to a BBQ by their pool. They also invite Dylan's neurologist and her fiance. Leah didn't know Dylan was in the cast because she didn't read his chart?! Leah and Dylan don't know who the other is until Leah's
"it's a magical day" notebook falls out of her pocket and Dylan picks it up. They hold hands even though Dylan is married and Emily is right there. Jim gets drunk at the BBQ, gropes Emily and knocks over a plate of hot dogs.
Aly comes over to use Dylan and Emily's pool, she takes off her top, Dylan is home. Then she takes a bubble bath. She tries to seduce Dylan, but he tells her she needs to stop it.
Amy is fed up with Jim, so she pulls a gun on him while he is waxing his Ferrari in the garage, the thing he does all the time. She threatens to shoot the car, instead she shoots and kills Jim. Aly walks in and sees her dad dying but Amy won't let her go to him. Amy tells Aly that it was suicide and to call 911. Aly sees her step-mom stage it as suicide. Dylan just happens to come over, he grabs Jim and smears blood all over his face as he cradles Jim.
Emily keeps taking pills. Dylan runs into Leah walking around a duck pond. They reconnect and find the treasure box and they have sex under the pine tree. Meanwhile Emily overdoses on pills and dies. Dylan finds Emily dead, he is sad for five seconds but then is with Leah.
Dylan tells Leah about his hacking of government secrets. He eat a spinach pile on a plate while she watches. He puts the plate on top of an unstable paper pile and it all falls over, then they laugh. Dylan is worried about telling Leah about his hacking secrets. As they sleep a mysterious pair of legs/shoes gets into their house and shakes a mirror around that drips blood. Leah is kidnapped while on the phone with Dylan, but the kidnapper drops his note about where he is supposed to take her. She is in the trailer outside the storage facility . Dylan uses the magic stone to walk through the unlocked trailer and save her.
Dylan then has a big press conference telling about his hacking. Various banks, insurance brokers, senators come up, state their wrongdoings then die by suicide: gun, pills, slit wrists. Dylan and Leah walk off into the field together. The End.
This is a Neil Breen production all the way, he did everything. He made up fake costuming, make up and catering companies to fill in the credits bu then reveals that anything starting with NB is a Neil Breen company.
Neil is comfortable in his naked body and wants to share that onscreen. The sex scenes are creepy, like he paid women actors so he could touch them. I've seen worse movies. The runtime is 100 minutes but it strangely moves even though the pacing is beyond strange. The character of Dylan doesn't care about his friend's death or his wife's death. It's never explained why Dylan and Emily are having problems. The other couple doesn't really get to what their problem is, aside from they both drink, don't have sex anymore and Amy is too busy at her job. Both couple have conversations that are strangely circular and reveal nothing. There is a wispy thing that moves across the screen. Did Dylan always have powers from the stone or they were unlocked with the car crash? The computers being off and the limited locations hint that this could all be taking place in his mind. It's super weird, terribly acted but one of a kind.
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