A man, plagued by insomnia, turns to Doctor Sander's Sleep Cure tapes for relief, becoming the unwitting star of his own nightmarish productions, navigating through bizarre and morbid dreamscapes filled with macabre humor.

A young heiress is tormented by the uncomposed music of the violent lover she has killed, until she meets a violinist who has lost his hearing in the Spanish Civil War. The haunting music seems to vanish - but everything has its price.