Description
Twins. Two men separated at birth. They both feel something missing from their lives. They meet by chance. Their lives then spin out of control on trajectories neither could have predicted.
Twins. Two stories coexist side by side. Slowly they twist and turn, interweaving. One is complete. The other repeats, then continues. It splinters into new realities, new people, new stories that blur the truth, before descending into the depths of confusion.
What is real? What is fiction? Who wrote the stories? Number one or two? Or are they the same person? Questions without answers. Answers without questions.
Only one survives to tell their tale.
SYNOPSIS
Spoiler Alert!
No seriously – if you don’t want to know the twist or the ending, DO NOT read any further.
Liam and Lucas live very different lives. One is a modest architect. The other a professional thief. Both feel something is missing in their lives.
Liam meets a rich beauty. Chloe sweeps him off his feet with promises of a life of luxury and excess. However, Liam is conflicted by what is on offer, preferring his self-built, simple life. Lucas is climbing the ranks of the organisation and is being rewarded with the spoils of crime. He feels he is better suited to live of a life of luxury and excess. It was always meant to be that way.
Quite by accident, they meet in a pub. It is just one minute out of their lives that sends them both in different directions. Lucas becomes jealous of Chloe for giving Liam all her money so easily. He realises that if they had been switched at birth and he had gone to Liam’s foster parents, he would be living Liam’s life. Chloe’s money should be his. He murders her, framing Liam as the culprit. With scant proof, Liam reveals the twin, who is eventually caught. Liam writes about the whole bizarre episode, if only to be clear himself about what happened. But was the story a twisted version of the truth, or fiction that danced too close to the truth?
The start of the second story repeats the first. It’s faster, raunchier, more fanciful. Liam is still an architect wooed by Chloe and her money, although now he has his sexy employee chasing him. At first, he is infatuated by Chloe until Nicole steals his heart. Lucas is a dropout. He once had everything, including a worthy career and wealth. But his wife had run off to leave him an empty shell of the man he once was. Now jumping from one boring telemarketing job to the next, Lucas has little or no ambition in life. Liam and Nicole plot to murder Chloe, to steal her money, and frame Lucas as the murderer. The plan is executed perfectly, and they run away to Paris. There they meet Jacques, a speculating property developer. Liam soon finds himself in a deal transaction that goes horribly wrong. Apparently, Nicole and Jacques were old friends and had counter plotted to steal Liam’s money. They shoot him in a dark alley and run off into the night never to be seen or heard of again.
Liam wakes in a Parisian hospital. Nicole’s bullet had only grazed him, and he had twisted and collapsed like a rag doll in fright. In the gloom, it only looked like the shot had hit in between the eyes. Confused with temporary amnesia, Liam finds the book he had written, believing it as the truth. But things are not as they seem. With the help of Delphine and other Parisian friends, they try to make truth from perceived realities, but there are too many contradictions. Nothing makes any sense. Liam returns to Sydney to piece his life together, but again, the book proves to be both truthful and fictitious. One by one, people he meets are brutally murdered. Releasing he is the next target, he tries to disappear, only to be shot once more, this time by his friend Delphine from Paris.
Dreams mix with thoughts mix with reality. People are the same, but different. Chloe is back from the dead, and Delphine is his nurse, but they have never previously met. Everyone is standing in front of the large window in the lounge room. Still, nothing makes any sense, but this time it is worse. In the end Liam (or is he Lucas?) resigns himself to the new truth because he realises that in his dreams, in his thoughts, and in his life now, Chloe was always his greatest true love.
A doctor studies her patient. Nothing has changed for several weeks, which is a concern for her. He writes feverishly, continuously, as he sits in front of a huge intricately drawn picture of a window on the wall. One day he is Liam. The next he is Lucas. Two men, two stories, blending to form a third persona.
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