乔治有一种特异功能，可以同时存在于无数可能世界。但是他死了，连脑也给人偷走。顺著两名侦探的线索，我们进入了乔治的存在多面体。他在不同时空仍寻觅他一爱再爱的乔伊丝，但这个灵魂伴侣却时而是他妻子，时而是陌生人。 编剧约翰米顿精通数学，将灵魂是否存在于大脑，想像力对思维的影响等问题，写成两幕黑色喜剧，九○年上演曾获奖项，此刻更亲自改编成电影。 导演罗拔利伯殊（《能／不能》，《我为兄狂》）亦是魁北克剧坛奇才，最擅时空交错和迷幻场景，在本片更将科幻、哲理和奇情融为一体George and Joyce lead parallel lives in alternate worlds. In each of those lives, George embarks on a relationship with Joyce, sometimes more successfully than others. George also becomes increasingly aware of his alternate lives, not only of Joyce in each of them, but what he carries of himself between each of those lives. In one of those lives, he is the most recent homicide victim in a rash of B&E's. In his case, he is the first victim where nothing of monetary value has been stolen, but only his brain removed from his skull and taken from the crime scene. The lead police investigators, Inspector Berkley and Detective Williams, although sometimes at odds with each other, eventually come to the conclusion that the murder has something to do with brain research, and that George may have been targeted rather than a random victim. In addition to Berkley and Williams' investigation and discovering the identity of the murderer, the alternate question becomes how this situation fits in with George's lives as a collective, especially as it relates to Joyce.
