- An artist loses himself in parallel dimensions after he suffers a mental breakdown when his wife leaves him for another man.
- Henry Blank was a child prodigy, a young artist with the world at his feet. Approaching middle age, inspiration waning, a supportive wife becoming increasingly bored, existence for Henry is a dark and lonely place.
On the eve of his first exhibition in twenty years, wracked with a fear of failure and coupled with his wife's departure Henry suffers a mental breakdown. He relives his birth and witnesses the horrific murder of his father, by his own mother. An event that has plagued not only Henry but the town of Reverie ever since.
Waking from a coma after confronting the man he believes responsible for ending his marriage, Henry's world has regurgitated itself. This time in a truly new form. Nightmares have become dreams, foes/friends and hell, an ineffable nirvana. His wife Jane however finds herself in a place she has no control over. A marionette in a revenge plagued lunatics puppet box that is quickly driving her to the brink.
Reborn and awake Henry's profound state of consciousness draws him to a strange encounter with a foul mouthed man living in his down pipe and into the arms of a beautiful jazz singer. She offers hope and together they dissolve time but she can be trusted or is she just bait, luring Henry deeper, back into a world where the line between nightmare and reality no longer exists? If he has any chance of survival he must discover his final masterpiece but ultimately Henry must learn to forgive.
The 5th Shadow is the existential journey of a man crippled by jealousy, he is alone in a world that has no place for him and the razor thin line between dream and reality.
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