In a conversation with his friend Nora, Hugo describes his between-life experience as a video store. This contrasts with Nora’s experience as a library.
Hugo explains each life he chooses to Nora as an old VHS that he plays right in the store. The movie starts the moment he disappears.
Hugo shares that his guide in his journey is his Uncle Philipe, who died years ago and never worked in a video store.
Nora asks Hugo whether their guides are ghosts, guiding spirits or guardian angels, to which Hugo answers, they are an interpretation.
Hugo shares that he's encountered a few other individuals experiencing the same phenomenon, referring to them as "sliders."
Hugo explains that sliders exist in a state of quantum superposition, both alive and dead in a multitude of realities due to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics.
Hugo's learned a lot about this phenomenon from a quantum physicist he met in one of his lives, Professor Dominique Bisset.
They discuss the average age group of sliders they've encountered, all of whom had regrets in life and desired a different path.
Hugo shares that sliders often move between lives but rarely settle. He personally has lived nearly three hundred lives, but sees his constant state as a positive.
Nora, however, is worried that her own time moving between lives is limited and wants to find a life she can permanently settle into.
Despite this, Hugo advises Nora to dream big and take advantage of the infinite possibilities she has access to.
Nora and Hugo discuss their past lives briefly, with Hugo revealing that they were married in one of his past lives. They shared a romantic moment at the end of the conversation.