An initially intriguing premise drifts dreamlike into indifference in this murder mystery-cum-surrealist drama, in which director Robert Lepage seems to have been influenced by avant-garde auteurs from Salvador Dali to Jean-Luc Godard, though without much benefit to the audience. A brilliant market dealer (Tom McCamus) is murdered, his brain removed. Stolen, the brain imagines its owner in different worlds, encountering various incarnations of his wife (Tilda Swinton). The fascination of this idea, alas, soon loses its grip under the director's slow, sonorous and soporific treatment.