In a small, coastal community where everything seems to be as it should, Trent Austin Io, a local restaurant manager begins to see cracks form in his very reality. He lives a simple life, etched in routine. He works, eats, sleeps and sometimes plays, but when Jim Alabaster enters his life everything changes. Trent has to ask himself, and the all knowing Bob "What is real?" Everything changes for him so quickly that he nearly spirals into madness.
Man in the Box establishes the idea that what you may think to be real is in fact an illusion. Forces work in the background, unbeknownst to Trent, and one man, Bob Richardson, seems to hold the key to Trent’s mystery.