Does anyone else see? Can anyone tell? Is he alone? Simon wishes for solace, for sanction from himself. He questions reality, truth versus illusion, as he sinks deeper and deeper into insanity. With schizophrenia setting in, he desperately tries to free himself from his delusions, a last desperate act by a desperate man. . A Day Awake is a dark character drama surrounding a man on the brink... on the brink of insanity, on the brink of insight, on the brink of life.