In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

College student Gauge's grip on reality disintegrates as he is torn asunder by his emotional conflicts, and by his own cinematographic creators and the very medium of the film that he inhabits.