Do we truly know the ones we love, or do we invent them, turning them into fictions, projections of our own desires? When a chance car accident sends writer Bryn Redding into a deep coma, a whole luminous life is eclipsed, plunged into a state of darkness. The only glimmers that remain come through the perceptions of those who love her, her mother and her lover, but contradictions between these views render them suspect. Gathered at her bedside, each stakes a claim to Bryn's identity, her past and future.