Open Your Eyes

A handsome man wakes to a female voice telling him to open his eyes. He drives through desolate city streets, searching for a sense of normalcy. He then awakens again, this time in bed with a woman, and he warns her not to leave messages on his alarm clock.

From a prison cell in Madrid, César recounts his tale to psychiatrist Antonio while wearing a prosthetic mask. The scene frames the narrative in the present and masks his true identity. His confessional sets up the mystery of what really happened.

Flashbacks show César as a good-looking, charming man who flirts with Sofía at Pelayo’s birthday party. He accompanies her to her home afterward, but they do not sleep together. The encounter plants seeds of desire and danger.

Nuria, César’s obsessive ex-lover, arrives and asks for a ride. On the way to her house, she crashes the car with the intent to kill them both. César survives but is horribly disfigured, deciding to wear a mask to conceal his face.

Sofía cannot bear to see César’s new face and begins to distance herself from him. The relationship strains under the weight of his disfigurement. He becomes increasingly isolated as a result.

César experiences disorienting lapses, including drinking and sleeping in the street. When he wakes, Sofía seems to love him again and surgeons restore his lost looks. The recovery teeters between dreamlike confusion and reality.

During an intimate moment with Sofía, she suddenly changes into Nuria. Horrified, César smothers her to death with a pillow. Everyone else believes Nuria is Sofía, and César is imprisoned for her murder.

In prison, fragments of César’s past return like dream fragments. He begins to glimpse that his memories may be manipulated, not entirely his own. The doubt about his identity deepens.

It’s revealed that César signed a contract with Life Extension to be cryogenically preserved and to experience lucid, lifelike dreams. The contract promises a future rebirth through artificial perception.

Back at the company, a representative explains the company’s 'artificial perception' technology: dreams built from the past are used to reborn clients in a distant future. He reveals the era is 150 years ahead, and César’s waking life since the street was a dream spliced into his actual life.

Convinced his life has been a nightmare, César decides to wake by destroying his current existence. He commits suicide at home shortly after signing the contract and is placed into cryonic suspension.

In the final moment, César leaps from the roof of the Life Extension building to wake into a new reality. The screen goes black as a woman tells him to open his eyes, leaving his fate and the nature of reality unresolved.