A man is asked to speak into a microphone. He starts by saying that he dreams about an imaginary city. Sometimes he dreams about paying rent to his small apartment, about a mishmashed train station, about the tragedy of the twin towers. In his dreams, he likes to eat at hamburger stands, but most times when he bites into one, he wakes up in a cold sweat. Other times, he dreams about a bridge collapse and him falling into the ocean. He never speaks to anyone in his imaginary city.

Whenever he talks to his sister about whether she has similar dreams, he’s told that it’s just him. Her grandmother writes her dreams in the form of poems stored in a metal box, and she tells him that her dreams are bad too. The man then recalls how general anesthetic during medical procedures have brought him to the imaginary city as well. When he was getting his teeth screwed in, he dreamt about driving until his brakes were sliced, causing him to plow through a crowd. After waking up, his mouth is full of blood, and his teeth are sore.

The man then talks about how he didn’t know what a cagot was until he was recently informed by the people who have asked him to share his story. He reveals that he was recruited for this because of genetic results. He is then asked to explain his terminology and his family history. He is asked to assess whether the images of his dreams match the images being shown to him now. He is told that a lot of recruits have been brought into the so-called neurological study he is now in. While nothing seems to match, he says that he will reach back out if something with his dreams changes.