The Final Act

At the top of his game and revered by the dance industry, Martine Duchamp is married to a prima ballerina and expects a baby girl. The stars are aligned. Catching him in an affair, his wife leaves in the middle of a gala celebration. Martine follows her in an automobile chase that ends in twisted metal. He lands in a coma. His wife keeps his secret and has his child. In his first cognizant moment, Martine learns that the accident may cost him his legs; he may never dance again. In a vision, he is provided a proposition: a return to his stature as an elite artist and dancer in exchange for his family. Upon his sudden recovery and release, Martine looks for his wife whom, in what is later prescribed to postpartum depression, had ended her and her daughter's life. Three years later, after a miraculous recovery Martine returns to the stage to headline a sold out run of Prometheus Bound at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. His incongruously erratic behavior casts a shadow over the show, and at the day of opening, a resentful cast and crew find themselves having to rehearse and compensate for his actions. With only his maternal manager, Eva, as confidant, Martine continues to suffer from the accident, fighting hallucinations and pain by abusing prescription drugs. His reveries continuously reinforce his guilt for throwing away his wife and his new-born child, yet something propels him towards the opening night's performance: the persistence of the Blond, the beautiful manifestation of his vision to reach the peak of his potential, to complete the final act, no matter the cost.