Sleepless
Sleepless (2008)
When Jake survives a car crash his family thinks it’s a miracle, only to watch as Jake lies motionless in a coma for the next eight years. Out of desperation they agree to an experimental treatment and against all odds, Jake begins to emerge from the coma.
But the world he finds himself in has changed. It’s a world with iPods and YouTube; a world where twin towers fall and threats lurk in the shadows… a world in which he has a son he never knew he had.
As Jake begins rehabilitation, he forms a relationship with his son and begins to adapt to his new world. But is Jake still the same man he was before?
Sleepless started as a different story but evolved when I started to experience insomnia. I began to wonder what it would be like for a character to wake up after eight years, to know nothing about 9/11 or our new technology. What would we make of our world? I talk about the story in this post. Sleepless should be finished by the end of 2008.
