Stark, a retired soldier, suffered from retrograde amnesia due to a gunshot wound during the war. He was unable to exonerate himself of the murder charge. He was sentenced to a mental hospital for compulsory treatment by the court. Put on the special jacket and put it in the morgue. In a desperate state, he travels through time and space to the future like an out-of-body soul, where he meets his fateful lover Jackie and witnesses his imminent death. After "death", he returned to reality and had a completely different experience of life. He began to do everything in his power to help others and himself to change the status quo, but death still came as expected.
The film completes a hypothesis that has been imagined by countless people: if a person "dies" once, how will he look at his past life? If you can return to your "past life", how will you spend your "this life"?
At the end of the film, Stark says with fondness: "Being sentient is more important than anything else." People live, but never really feel their own existence - this wonderful feeling reminds you of what things in life are Absurd and meaningless, and which parts are truly precious.
The ending song "Quiet inside" once again sets the tone of the whole film, with a hoarse and magnetic male voice, euphemism, introspection, and a touch of melancholy.
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