Plot

A New Yorker who recently resigned from his job, awakens in a desert mountain location. He doesn't know where he is. He sees an elderly man being shot at, the elderly man who eventually dies of his gunshot wounds. The New Yorker thinks he will befall the same fate as the elderly man. The New Yorker makes his way into a nearby city - a desert oasis - and learns that everyone there is called by a number, and that this city is called "The Village". Although knowing it is not his name or his home, everyone is calling him Six, and he lives in an apartment in the The Village. The face of the authorities of The Village is Two, who tells Six that The Village is the only reality there is. Six is told he's a free man, but he feels like he's a prisoner in The Village. He believes the elderly man, who Six learns was named 93, knew that there was an alternate reality outside of The Village and found a way to escape, which is the reason he was killed. With the help of a waitress named 554, Six also learns that there are a few in The Village who also believe there is a world outside of The Village. As Six tries to figure out what's going on, he has a recurring memory of a situation in New York involving a woman named Lucy.—Huggo

A man wakes up in the middle of the desert not knowing where he is or who he is for that matter. He comes across an elderly, dying man who tells him to find 544. The man soon makes his way to what everyone refers to The Village. It seems to be in the middle of nowhere and while the residents all seem happy, they are also unquestioning about anything about the outside world. They are also nameless, being referred to only by number. The man from the desert learns that he is Number 6 and lives in a luxurious home. People seem to know him but he has no recollection of ever having been in The Village. He has bits and pieces of memory and remembers an encounter in New York City, but little else. He tracks down 544, a waitress in a restaurant, but while it is clear that she knows more that she will admit, she is also clearly afraid.—garykmcd

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Michael wakes in the desert, disoriented and unsure of where he is. At the sound of a gunshot and barking dogs, he goes to the aid of an old man who is running from armed pursuers. Michael carries the old man into a cave, where, with his dying breath, the old man asks Michael to hide his body and tell 554 he got away. After burying the body, Michael follows a light in the distance and arrives in a Village.

Michael hails a cab and asks the driver to take him to a train station. "This is The Village," the confused driver tells him," and I do local destinations." Michael jumps out of the moving cab and walks into a crowded nightclub, where a woman asks him to dance. At the sound of barking dogs, he runs back out to the cab.

Unsure of where to go, he asks to be taken to 554. "Now you're talking," says the driver, who identifies himself as 147. Michael finds 554, a young waitress at the local Solar Cafe, and tells her the old man got away. 554 identifies the old man as 93, but is hesitant to get mixed up in any trouble.

Dogs appear and chase Michael to a nearby rooftop, where he gets a fleeting glimpse of a New York street before flashing back to The Village. At the approach of a man wearing a fedora, Michael faints and falls off the roof.

Michael has a bizarre dream that he is trapped, but he wakes unharmed in a Village hospital to find a doctor named 313 the woman from the nightclub tending to him. 313 tells Michael she wants to help him accept reality. "I'm going to fetch you a cold drink," she says, "and then someone will take you home. You're a free man."

Before he is checked out, Michael is taken to see a mysterious man named Two. Michael demands to see the American consul and to be returned to New York, but Two who calls Michael "Six" tells him that's not possible: "There is no New York," Two says. "There is only The Village." Two wants to know what Six did with 93's body, but Six remains obstinate.

Six is driven to his Village apartment labeled "6" which is almost identical to his apartment in New York.

The next day, Six notices two towers looming in the distance. Determined to find a way out, he purchases a map from the shopkeeper, steals 147s cab and drives out to the desert.

The action cuts to New York where Michael sits alone at a diner. A woman approaches and asks to borrow Michael's cell phone, claiming to have lost hers. They flirt with each other and Michael invites her back to his apartment. The action returns to The Village.

313 approaches Six, who is passed out in the desert. Driving him back to The Village, she asks Six who he was talking to while he was unconscious. "I want to help you with these delusions," 313 says.

At home, Two gathers pills from a cabinet and carries them on a tray upstairs.

147 and his wife, 21-16, are summoned to The Village Clinic for having escorted a newcomer (Six) to The Village.

Six goes to 93's apartment looking for clues. He finds a drawing of Big Ben in London, but is interrupted by Two, who again asks where 93's body is hidden.

Six goes to 554 for an explanation of the drawing. After seeing it, 554 tells Six it was from her other life before The Village.

147 and 21-16 report to the Clinic. Two gives them medals for services to The Village. Two asks 147 his impression of the newcomer, and 21-16 presents Two with a cherry cake.

Throughout The Village, a public broadcast announces that 93s body was discovered in the sand dunes.

In the Solar Café, Six presses 554 for details about 93. He takes her to his apartment, where she speaks of 93s dreams of his other life. He started saying things that were prisoners here, she says. 554 claims there are others who dream and shows Six her own drawing culled from a recurring vision the Statue of Liberty.

Later at Palais Two, Two feeds pills to a woman who appears to be asleep in bed. His son 11-12 enters, and asks Two why Six believes there is another place. "For people like Six, life is not enough," Two says. "They want to escape it."

Six visits an empty grave at The Village cemetery where 93 will be buried. 313 approaches and the two discuss Village history.

Back in New York, Michael tells the woman he resigned today. She tells him her name is Lucy.

The next day, Six crashes a funeral for 93. He tells the mourners that there is another place outside of The Village and that 93 found a way out. If 93 found the way out, says Two, Six can convince himself there is an out. Six must try to escape because Six knows there is nothing to escape from.

Six heads to the Solar Café to see 554, but is stopped by 147, who tells him hell always be there if Six needs him. Moments later, the cafe explodes. Clinging to life, 554 tells Six that 93 told her to "follow the towers."

554 dies at the hospital. Six asks 313 if the bomb was an act of terrorism. 313 begs him to stop meddling.

Distraught, Six goes to the gates of Palais Two. "I will find a way to escape," he screams. "I am not a number. I'm a free man!" Six runs in the desert toward the towers, but is stopped by an enormous white hovering ball Rover.