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Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been
damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's
murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and
he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on himself
and
taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. The movie is told in forward
flashes of events that are to come that compensate for his unreliable
memory, during which he has liaisons with various complex characters.
Leonard badly wants revenge for his wife's murder, but, as numerous
characters explain, there may be little point if he won't remember it in order
to provide closure for him. The movie veers between these future
occurrences and a telephone conversation Leonard is having in his motel
room in which he compares his current state to that of a client whose claim
he once dealt with.