Norman Ray is a filmmaker who lost his parents in a traumatic fire as a child. Now his trauma and identity are buried underneath an obsessive urge to monitor his health and an alcohol and pill addiction. When he saves his blind friend from his burning flat, Norman is drawn into an unparalleled self-therapy to fill the black hole in his biography. Like the sun turning into a red giant his confrontation is about to devour his son, his wife and everything in his way.