Tommy is a doctor who wants to develop a new drug to treat his terminally ill wife. And he tried his best to demonstrate his desperation in front of everyone and pretended to be calm, so he created another world in his heart that only belonged to him. In that world, he guarded the tree representing his wife and trudged together on the road to hope. on the way. And his wife's writings about Mayan culture became a third world, where there were warriors and queens, and Tommy naturally projected himself and his wife into this story. This is my understanding, the real Tommy, he made up the world two, and the world three was made up by Izzi, but since the director shows it from Tommy's perspective, the world three we see is Izzi's writing in Tommy's thoughts reflect.
The death of his wife gave Tommy a lot of shock, so in the second world the tree also died. At this time, however, the request to continue writing the book entrusted by his wife on his deathbed gave him the impetus to move forward, and then he began to think seriously. The result of thinking is relief, and the performance is that his own fictional world II has finally reached its final destination. And he finally agreed with his wife that death is immortality, which will make both illusory worlds end with his death and the growth of trees, and finally return to reality. He planted fruit on his wife's grave, because she said that growing the body into a tree is the road to awe.
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