
He escapes McCabe and the guards while calling for "tech support", and rushes for the building's lobby, which is suddenly empty. David realizes that he is in his own lucid dream, which has become a nightmare. Rebecca, a company representative, explains how Life Extension uses cryonic suspension to save those with terminal illnesses until a cure can be found, keeping them in a lucid dream state to otherwise exercise their mind. Seeing a company with that name nearby, McCabe arranges to take David there under guard. McCabe conducts several more interviews, which serve to help David to recall the name "Life Extension". David is arrested and imprisoned, and finds his face no longer reconstructed and he's once again wearing the mask.ĭr. Out of confusion and shock, he suffocates Julie. One day, while at Sofia's, David wakes up to find himself facing Julie, with all the photos of Sofia's face replaced by Julie's. While David's life seems perfect, he notices strange oddities, such as brief visions of his distorted face, and a man at a bar who tells David that he could control the world and everyone in it. Doctors find a way to surgically repair David's face despite their prior prognosis. She takes him home, and over time, helps David emotionally recover. The next morning, Sofia returns to David, asleep on the street, and apologizes to him. They leave him to wallow in the street outside the club. Brian convinces David to join him and Sofia at a club, but David ends up drunk and insults the two. David wears a prosthetic mask around others, but the mental and physical scarring from the accident causes him to become withdrawn and depressed.

She purposely crashes the car, killing herself and drastically disfiguring David.ĭoctors cannot completely repair David's face using plastic surgery, leaving it scarred and misshapen. As David leaves, Julie offers him a ride, and soon reveals her jealousy of Sofia. David and Sofia spend the night together at Sofia's apartment and fall in love, unaware that David's current lover, Julie Gianni, has followed them there. He is introduced to Sofia Serrano by his best friend, Brian Shelby, during a party. In flashbacks, David leaves the duties of the publisher to his father's trusted associates while living as a playboy in Manhattan. Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. David Aames, the owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison.
