In a bleak, bureaucratic world of flickering fluorescent lights and endless corridors, Simon James Jesse Eisenberg is a man so painfully insignificant he seems to vanish before the eyes of his coworkers and the woman he pines for, Hannah Mia Wasikowska. His quiet life of desperate isolation is shattered with the arrival of James Simon Jesse Eisenberg, a charismatic and confident new employee who is Simon’s exact physical double. Directed with a distinctively off-kilter vision by Richard Ayoade, this darkly comedic drama explores a surreal identity crisis as the effortlessly successful James begins to usurp Simon’s job, his life, and his fragile connections, including those with a cynical colleague Chris O'Dowd. As Simon’s reality unravels in the film’s Kafkaesque atmosphere, he must confront the terrifying possibility that he is being erased, not by a stranger, but by a bolder, better version of himself.