Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and lifes mysteries. We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves.

A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.

Madison (Sarah Roemer), a phone sex operator living in New Orleans, is doing everything she can to lead a normal life. When a series of events leaves Madison suicidal and desperate, she locks herself away in her apartment for 30 days. Using a video camera to document herself like a visual journal, Madison vows that if she does not have the answer to her questions and feel more at peace with her life, she will kill herself on the 30th day. Will she be able to piece her life together? Are the people in her life real at all or are they merely figments of her disordered and fragmented mind?

A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.

Storyline: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.

Madison (Sarah Roemer), a phone sex operator living in New Orleans, is doing everything she can to lead a normal life. When a series of events leaves Madison suicidal and desperate, she locks herself away in her apartment for 30 days. Using a video camera to document herself like a visual journal, Madison vows that if she does not have the answer to her questions and feel more at peace with her life, she will kill herself on the 30th day. Will she be able to piece her life together? Are the people in her life real at all or are they merely figments of her disordered and fragmented mind?