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It's "A Clockwork Orange" meets "The Truman Show". PETER GOODMAN, is a beloved, popular and exemplary family man. He lives in Dreamville, a laboratory-city where: there are no phones or internet, special laws apply and violence (even involuntary) is prohibited. If someone hits another person, even by mistake, the victim is obliged to punch the offender and the latter has to put up with it. In reality, the hit is actually weak, because the attacker is simply touching a point of the other person's body, but whoever gets hurt, falls to the ground screaming. In this ideal society violence, crime and theft have all been eradicated. Everything runs smoothly.

That is until Peter accidentally hits MARK, a child with low self-esteem who practises boxing (a sport allowed only for psychological encouragement of children under 12 years old). The boy gets carried away and hits Peter harder, making his nose bleed. As soon as Peter sees the blood, he is presented with memory fragments and mnemonic intermissions from his past. That is how he realises that he has been severely abused. He starts seeing his environment differently, questioning people and situations, realising that his world is fake. Even his wife JENNIFER and his best friend CARL start acting weird. So does an elderly woman, JANE READER, who stands at the same spot every morning, asking for his help to walk across a street that leads to a dead end. Determined to find out the truth, Peter looks for ways to escape.