The parallel

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If nobody acknowledges our existence - how do we know we exist? Our existence is acknowledged in two different places, two different times at once, leading to the question, is it possible to live a parallel existence?

High school senior Danny Fitzgerald certainly didn’t think so. The town’s golden boy with the charmed life and beautiful girlfriend, Lynn Valentine, is about to graduate. On the night of his graduation, however Danny’s life is forever changed by a chance encounter with a Gypsy who startles him with a fact that alarms him: your
life is not predestined just because you want it to; your choices determine your life. In a moment of intoxicated arrogance, Danny gives in to a night of forbidden passion with Lynn’s friend, a dangerous vixen named Margie. It’s the last thing Danny remembers before waking up to a new reality without a clue how he got there. Thirty-nine-years old, living a dead end life with a now bitter and vengeful Margie, Danny frantically navigates through a dark world that he doesn’t understand, desperately trying to get back to that night with Lynn and the Gypsy . The people around him assure him that this life is his new reality. The rest is his imagination. But Danny still believes it’s a dream and fights to get back . As things progress in this new existence , it suddenly occurs to Danny that this might not be a dream; he may have dreamt being a contented teenager, poised for great success in life.

Are either of these stories a dream, or has Danny’s life actually split into two parallel existences, age 17 and 39? And if so, will he be able to regain the power of choice that was taken away from him, and choose his own path in life?