Synopsis for
The Fall (2006) More at IMDb Pro »

Roy Walker (Lee Pace), an early 20th century Hollywood stuntman, lands in the hospital after performing a dangerous stunt to impress his girlfriend. Distraught and suicidal after losing her, the bedridden Roy befriends a fellow patient, a young girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru). He enchants her with vivid, fantastical tales about five heroes — an Indian, an ex-slave named Ota Benga, an Italian explosives expert, a masked bandit, and Charles Darwin — who unite to fight a common enemy, Governor Odious. Although Roy has genuine affection for Alexandria, he also has an ulterior motive: by telling tales and gaining her trust, he tricks her into stealing morphine from the hospital pharmacy so he can commit suicide.

As the line between fact and fantasy blurs, real-life people begin to populate Roy's fictitious stories. A hospital nurse (Justine Waddell) becomes the center of a romantic feud between Governor Odious and the masked bandit, who turns out to be Roy. Mesmerized by the epic, ever-changing story, Alexandria returns to the pharmacy to pilfer another bottle of morphine for Roy. While climbing on a ladder to reach the pills high on a shelf, she loses her footing and falls, injuring herself.

After surgery (depicted in an stop motion|animated sequence like a similar surgery scene in ''Frida''), Alexandria is visited by Roy in the recovery room, where he consoles her and confesses his stories were a ruse to obtain morphine. Once they are fully recovered, Roy returns to work as a Hollywood stunt man and Alexandria returns to picking fruit with her family in the orange groves.