Norman Da Luz's father believes that "the World is an awful place" to be and that ascending to the afterlife would be equivalent to waking up from a nightmare. Under this philosophy, he "mercy"-kills his wife.

Norman himself is a young boy who eats bugs for a living and can never see since God had taken his glasses away. Growing up with this mindset, he questions whether things are real, as if the World is some elaborate set-up and in order to wake up one needs to pass away. He becomes a substa