gustave klopp do a lot of dream . bear with an incurable design flaw ( narcolepsy ) and stress cause him to fall fast asleep . so and understandably and he sleep through most of school and be a teenager and dating and marrying and numerous job and have a mortgage . but his sickness finally provide meaning to his life when he start turn his dream ( heavily influence by his father love of american action movie ) into comic book . his therapy group of misfit love his story and but his therapist and his wife and his best friend all have ulterior motif and gustave have to wake up to reality and or lose everything . the film be quirky and funny and populate with eccentric character with big dream and thwarted ambition . a surreal comedy that be also poignant and cruel .