WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES

Julian, a former high school football standout in his early twenties, is diagnosed with a progressive
neuromuscular disease that gradually strips him of physical strength and independence. As hospital
visits intensify and legal tensions rise around potential environmental exposure, Julian’s family
struggles with guilt, fear, and the impulse to fight what cannot be reversed.
But whenever Julian closes his eyes, he finds himself in a luminous desert sanctuary: a glass house
perched high above an endless valley. In this dreamlike landscape, he can walk, climb, and breathe
without obstruction. There he meets a mysterious woman who seems to understand him
completely.
As his physical world contracts, this inner world expands—becoming not an escape, but a space of
clarity and emotional reckoning.
The film crosscuts between sterile hospital corridors and vast desert horizons, gradually mirroring
Julian’s internal shift from resistance to acceptance. His father’s guilt, his mother’s quiet collapse,
and his siblings’ fragile attempts at normalcy ground the story in intimate realism.
Ultimately, WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES is not a story about dying—it is about how we choose to
meet the
inevitable. It is a meditation on love, accountability, and the quiet strength required to let go.