The story follows Leonard Shelby, an ex-insurance investigator who suffers from short-term memory loss and the inability to form new memories after a horrific break-in at his house in which his wife was raped and murdered.0 Leonard uses an elaborate system of photographs, handwritten notes, and tattoos in an attempt to uncover the perpetrator who killed his wife and caused him to sustain the condition.1 The film chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, one moving forward in time while the other tells the story backward, revealing more each time.2 The film is a powerful story about the hold that identity has on us, and how it can even transcend the loss of short-term memory.
