 To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother (John Hurt) removes his disturbed younger sibling (Julian Sands) from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother s insanity.