British screenwriter Phillip Philadelphia conducts a retiring life of fantasy, delusion and tawdry eroticism from a Gold Coast motel; meanwhile the ghosts of love and past glory begin to erode his web of reverie.
After a cinema spark, a guarded woman experiences intimacy for the first time, only to learn the man she trusted is engaged to another, leading her expose herself to the world in the most horrifying way.
After seemingly ordinary night of recreational drug use triggers a prolonged episode of derealization, Jordan's perception of reality unravels. Familiar places, loved ones, and even his own mind become frighteningly alien.