This David Cronenberg movie starts in ordinary reality, which takes a turn for the surreal: a church of television, a celebrity who only appears on closed-circuit TV. Hallucinations start to confuse things: a breathing TV, non sequitur dialog. As the world becomes all hallucination, it becomes harder and harder to tell what is "really" going on. Eventually, in the world of complete hallucination, you realize that there is no reason to trust the original "reality" ...