A young man named joseph jan nowicki visits a dilapidated sanatorium to see his father jakob tadeusz konrad on his arrival a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasnt died yet perhaps due to josephs arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium joseph undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium each of which conjures worlds composed of his memories dreams and nightmares adapted from a collection of short stories by p