When her favorite dream-streamer stops sharing his dreams, a rigid executive must help him dream again to win the contract of her life before her nightmares destroy her temper.

I could see the story focusing on the client in a story world where dreamstreaming is a commodity, a service with competing brands of dreams, advertising slogans, celebrity endorsements, 'star' dreamstreamers -- the whole 9 yards+ of capitalist commercialism. It's even regulated by a government agency.

And, of course, there's a black market. And maybe she's addicted to an unregulated, black market dreamstream. So when that source dries up, stops streaming dreams, she, like any addict for any psychotropic drub, panics, goes through withdrawal symptoms, becomes desperate to jack back into the dreamstream she is addicted to.

It's a concept ripe with dramatic possibilities.

I could see the story focusing on the client in a story world where dreamstreaming is a commodity, a service with competing brands of dreams, advertising slogans, celebrity endorsements, 'star' dreamstreamers -- the whole 9 yards+ of capitalist commercialism. It's even regulated by a government agency.

And, of course, there's a black market. And maybe she's addicted to an unregulated, black market dreamstream. So when that source dries up, stops streaming dreams, she, like any addict for any psychotropic drub, panics, goes through withdrawal symptoms, becomes desperate to jack back into the dreamstream she is addicted to.

It's a concept ripe with dramatic possibilities.

"When a depressed dream-streamer quit dreaming, he must face his most dedicated dream-subscriber". I don't think it really works in this "Misery" way.
Or:
"When a depressed dream-streamer stop dreaming, he teams up with his most dedicated dream-subscriber to dream again before he get fired".
I still prefere when it's the story of the subscriber: I found it more ironic: the story of a rigid person that can't face her own dreams/nightmares must help a depressed professional dreamer to dream again.

anyway, I think there's something interesting about hired dreamers, dreams for rent, dream subscribers, etc. I think what's interesting is that dreams are like commodity in this film.