Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.

It tells the story of Talon, the lone survivor of the "Blackbloods," as she tracks the men who killer her family to a lawless border town. Talon must awaken powers lying dormant in her dark blood and make true friends at the Outpost to lead a rebellion against the regime.

Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.

Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. Then something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen.