For years Spencer Mann has been preoccupied with establishing a career and finding the ideal woman. He has another obsession as well - questioning the nature of time and reality. He was coming to the conclusion that Western Civilization rested on three beliefs that were accepted as facts but were only theories, and theories that held no more merit than competing theories. The three theories: that time is linear, that absolute time and space exist, that the brain gives rise to consciousness. So, is life a journey or a reflection in a broken mirror?