Synopsis

Short Version
Sarah has been in a coma for almost twenty years. Part of what she has been experiencing has been doctor’s attempts to reach her. After getting a message on her phone about her situation, Sarah chuckles in shock, finally having an answer for what has been wrong with her. The film ends unclear if she will be able to escape her nightmare and wake up from her coma, and if she does, she will have to grapple with the fact she is no longer a teenager but a woman in her late thirties to early forties.

Long Version
Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone) is a runaway teenager, estranged from her mother for unexplained reasons. Outside the occasional night she can stay over with her best friend Zoe, she sleeps in playgrounds, though her quality of sleep is poor, due to insomnia and vivid nightmares.

Desperate for cash and perhaps some answers to her problems, Sarah signs up for a sleep study. After several nights, her nightmares worsen, and she has a panic attack after one of the researchers shows her a printout of a man she saw in her dream. Sarah runs out and after having an apparent seizure, has her phone stolen, and she is unable to locate Zoe.

Confronting Jeremy (Landon Liboiron) about what the study is about, Sarah promises to stay in the study (and not reveal his unethical previous interactions with her) if he gives her some answers. He explains they have found a way to map dreams to actual pictures. Unbeknownst to all the subjects, the scientists are tracking the existence of a universal nightmare figure they call The Shadow. During another night, Sarah’s dreams get worse and one of her eyes bleeds. Chasing her down, Jeremy finds her passed out in a nightclub, in her attempt to find Zoe.

Waking up in his apartment, Sarah sees his dream of the two of them as romantic vampire lovers. Sarah saves him from an encounter of The Shadow, and the experience bonds them in their trauma, leading them to have sex. However, Sarah passes out seeing the Shadow men, leading Jeremy to take her to the hospital. She soon begins to sleepwalk out of the building.

Calling Anita, another researcher, a desperate Jeremy begins to track Sarah’s movement in dream. After walking for miles, they get into a clearing that shows in her dream a large castle. Just as she is about to enter, Jeremy hears a cell phone in the field and answers a call, which wakes Sarah up. As they try to leave, a horrified Sarah tells the two that it is her phone that was stolen.

The Shadow men come for them, pulling Anita and Jeremy into the dark void. As all light falls away around her, The Shadow reaches Sarah…only for her to wake up in Jeremy’s apartment, covered in blood, having seemingly killed him in a sleepwalking episode. Going to the bathroom, she gets a message on her phone. It tells her that she has been in a coma for twenty years and the message they are sending her is to help her wake up. Looking at her teeth, Sarah realizes she has fangs, like Jeremy’s dream. Sarah chuckles in shock and relief, realizing she didn’t kill him, because he and the world she’s in isn’t real. Having gotten answers, the film ends unclear if she will wake from her coma and if she does, Sarah will have to grapple with the knowledge she is no longer a young woman but an adult in her late thirties to early forties.