Synopsis

Our psychological thriller is based upon a girl in her early twenties who suffers from narcolepsy. The most common symptoms of narcolepsy are drowsiness, dream like hallucinations which can occur between sleep and wakefulness, sleep paralysis- where she is unable to move when she first wakes up or when feeling drowsy and the most serious symptom, cataplexy, is the sudden loss of muscle tone while awake resulting in inability to move.  These symptoms make our main character very vulnerable and dependant on her boyfriend.  She particularly suffers from hallucinations and often finds herself in locations with no recollection of getting there.  She also struggles to tell the difference between reality and dreams.  In her hallucinations she finds herself in violent situations with her boyfriend.  When she thinks she has woken up from these nightmares she tells her boyfriend and he continues to react in the same ways as he did in the nightmare, this becomes a vicious cycle and she becomes more afraid and doesn't know who to trust, although her boyfriend is not hurting her in reality, the hallucinations are so realistic and vivid she believes them.  The illness becomes so suffocating that in self defence she kills her boyfriend believing it is an hallucination but later finding that it is reality and she can not wake up from that.