Monotony and Marriage. It happens. Sex is not as hot and heavy as it once was. It's not a matter of whose fault it is, sometimes it is what it is. There comes a time where maybe some mystery should be in order. Most of us are attracted to the unknown. Most of us are attracted to danger.
I said most though...not all...
Jessie and Gerald...Or Jessie and Gerry... Has a nice ring to it right?
A strained marriage needs a romantic and kinky getaway for Jessie and Gerald and that is exactly where they head to. They go to a secluded lake house. All the essentials are packed, negligee, handcuffs, Pecker Pills, etc. Jessie finds a stray German Shepherd and feeds it. When it is finally sexy time, Gerald handcuffs Jessie to the bedpost and begins to enact a rape fetish/fantasy. Jessie pleads for him to stop, but he doesn't. She is really saying NO....
Gerald's fantasy and attempt to rekindle their dull marriage is non reciprocated and he ends up dying of a heart attack thanks to an overdose of Pecker Pills. Jessie is left in handcuffs screaming for help. The German Shepherd walks in and takes a bite out of the dead Gerald. Gerald wakes up though his body is still on the floor and puts Jessie in her place. He reminds her of why their marriage was as strained as it was. Gerald knows Jessie better than she knows herself. This was a chronic reminder. Jessie then sees herself, freed from the handcuffs, talking right back to her.
Hallucinations or suppressed memories? What was really wrong with Jessie? Gerald was more than just a figment of her imagination. And who was this creature with a bag of bones and trinkets that Jessie kept being taunted by? According to Gerald, it is Death coming for her. Jessie is restrained and not just physically but mentally too, because in Gerald's game, the objective is to break free from the mental prison in which Jessie created for herself. The players in this game are of course, Gerald, Jessie, The German Shepherd, and The creature with the bag of bones a.k.a. The Man Made of Moonlight. Every player is a pawn in Jessie's mind. Gerald begins to call Jessie "Mouse" which triggers a very shameful and traumatic memory of her father. When Jessie was little, she sat on her father's lap a lot. When she was a little bit older, she was still Daddy's girl. As her and her father watched the solar eclipse, he suggested that Jessie sit on his lap just like she did when she was little. She does so and her father begins to masturbate. She was sworn to secrecy to never repeat this to anybody. She ended up marrying a man just like her own father. She recalls after the incident, breaking a glass by squeezing too hard and lacerating her hand. Jessie, now handcuffed, attempts to free herself by smashing the water glass and cutting her wrist so she could peel her way free. And she does. She passes out from the fatigue and blood loss, but when she regains consciousness, she sees the Man Made Of Moonlight and gives him her wedding ring for his trinket bag. She gets in the car and he is right there in the backseat. She gets into an accident and help arrives.
Six months later, free at last, but there is just one more thing Jessie needs to do in order to win Gerald's game which is not quite over. She needs to confront her younger self and set that innocent and vulnerable girl free. She does so by writing a letter to her 12 year old self. Her hand is in dire need of skin grafts so she does the best she can. Jessie used some of Gerald's life insurance to embark on an organization for victims of sexual abuse. The Man Made Of Moonlight is the remaining pawn in the game. She learned while watching the news, that a serial killer who had suffered from acromegaly, causing disfigurement of the head, dug up crypts, stealing bones and jewels and occasionally ate the faces of male corpses. Jessie arrives at his sentencing. Jessie now realizes he was there the entire time when he quotes what she said while being handcuffed. She sees the face of Gerald and her father and states, "you are so much smaller than I remember". She walks out with the sunlight glaring down at her.
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