Coming across something you don't expect, and dealing with it as you are surprised by the eventualities. Whatever impulse you have creates the landscape of your future. Some of the people that come into line in the unfolding seem to come with alarming coincidence, as though all of the interaction the character is having is creating an alternate world, a dark dimension without the explicit awareness of the character that he is somewhere else. The atmosphere contains the split, between a woman he cares about and a world he could be living in, and a woman who stands on the precipice from which he is dangling. This shadow world is conveyed through the filmic framing very well.