Urged on by his therapist, a man recounts his career and relationship under the guise of a fairytale. Floundering as a mediocre lawyer, he seeks love in a woman just as average as himself. His bride-to-be's father requests he slay a dragon to win her love, but his incompetency and her avoidance of animal cruelty save him from fulfilling the deed. After their marriage, he discovers the quiet rhythms of their domestic life hold a terrible secret. A sorceress has cursed them never to have a child. When his wife becomes pregnant, they both accept the happy miracle without questioning it, only to discover their newborn baby has a lifelong disability. Frustrated at being forced to recount his life, the man begins to degrade his therapist, simultaneously revealing the reason for his visit - with his marriage crumbling and his adult son still an infant he must care for, all he wants is to escape his life. In his fable, he runs into the darkness of an untamed forest, away from the home he can no longer find amidst the trees and the rotting bridge to his son he cannot cross. Just as he confesses the tragic mundanity of his life to his therapist, a story too pitiful to even begin with 'once upon a time,' his therapist replies that he's getting somewhere. Perhaps, with his realization of the depth of his unhappiness, the man's story may at last be truly beginning.