This is a sequel to Monkeys and Lumps The Dreamless Sleep the second in an intended trilogy is a hybrid of drawn animation liveaction and puppetry The Dreamless Sleep includes brief biographies of historic figures like Else Bosselman who drew underwater creatures as described by William Beebe from the windows of the bathysphere and Christine the Astonishing a medieval woman mystic The film is based on a series of interviews with Ima Plume