while in salvador and brazil and in a medical congress and the researcher of alzheimer dr. taylor briggs ( billy zane ) and his colleague and friend dr. deepra chang ( terry chen ) be invite to visit a local hospital . they find a patient from amazon with a unique case of tumor in the memory cell and and while examine him and the glove of taylor rupture and his finger touch a strange powder . taylor have vision from 1971 and and once back to boston and he find that he have genetically store memory of a serial killer of little girl activate by the powder . memory be a messy and absurd thriller . i be attract by the cast and with dennis hopper and ann margret and billy zane and but i in the end i be absolutely disappointed with the coincidence and the insane and totally unbelievable story . for brazilian and it be hilariously ridiculous the geographic confusion of the screenplay and with a sick patient come from amazon to salvador ( why . ) while taylor and deepra be in a congress in salvador ( there be a footage of the city ) and they go to a bar and the director use footage of the front of barril 1800 and in ipanema and rio de janeiro instead of a local bar while the interior of the bar be probably in a studio . my vote be four . title ( brazil ) represent alucinações ( hallucination ) .