In this movie, Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, a man whose life is a fake one. The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, in the start of the movie a lamp that belongs in a tv-studio falls from the sky, but Truman dosen't think more about it, because in the radio they just say that it fell of an airplane. All his live he have lived in this little coast town called Seahaven, lately he has been wanting to leave and go to fiji, but runs into problems every time. From he was little he wanted to be and explorer like colombus, but his teacher just laughs at him, and says, theres nothing more to discover.
             All Truman's friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular tv-serie in the world: The Truman Show.
             Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. One day, Truman accidentally bumps into a catering area backstage, where there were supposed to be an elevator. He immediatly runs to his friend Marlon and tells him about it, but of course Marlon won't belive him, after this Truman becomes very suspicious. One day he pretends to sleep but he really runs away, he won't to discover the truth.
             At the same time Truman met Meryl, he also has a little fling with a girl named Sylvia, his is obviously in love with this girl, but he only got to spend a few hours with her, before she was taken out of the show. He tries to find her later on, but of course it wasn't her real name he got. He tries to make pictures of her by, cutting out parts of faces on models in some magazines. This tells us that he can't forget her.
             When they can't find Truman, they start a search with all the people in the town, but they don't look in the water, because no one thinks that Truman can escape that way, because when Truman was little he was on a fishing trip with his father, and they ran in to a horrible storm which threw his father ober board ...