Mazes of the Mind

A young man wakes up in a strange room as a complete stranger to himself. Saxon remembers snatches of a dream of being in a desert, and nothing more. Looking in the mirror, he finds himself battered and bruised. A man he doesn’t recognize enters and tells Saxon he is recovering from a concussion gotten in a football match. The team was scheduled to move on, so Saxon has been left in the care of this Frenchman who claims to be a good friend. He suggests Saxon relax and read a book while he recovers – ‘The Metamorphosis’, by Franz Kafka. The Frenchman then leaves, arranging to meet Saxon later in a courtyard café outside the inn. But the Frenchman has disappeared, leaving Saxon to encounter a violinist, a puppeteer, and a severely attractive Russian woman who seems dangerously familiar. Giving up on finding the Frenchman, Saxon returns to his room and collapses in bed, where he returns to the desert in his dreams and then awakens to a different reality. Thus begins Saxon’s convoluted journey through the maze his mind has become. Supposed friends appear to lead a Saxon unfamiliar even to himself through a life he does not recognize. It becomes apparent they are leading him through all these deceits toward some hidden goal. What? Kafka seems to hold the answer, if Saxon can only understand what Gregor Samsa is trying to tell him.