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Truman is intended by the producers to fall in love with and marry fellow student Meryl, but during his college years he develops feelings for Sylvia, an [[Extra (acting)|extra]]. Sylvia sympathizes with Truman's surreal plight and tries to tell him his life is a fiction, but she is fired from the show and forcibly removed from the set before she can convince him. Truman marries Meryl as "written," but his marriage is stilted and passionless, and he secretly continues to imagine a life with Sylvia, and dreams of traveling to [[Fiji]], where he has been told she moved. Meanwhile, in the real world, Sylvia joins "Free Truman", an activist group that wants to liberate the unwitting TV star from what they think is a show-business prison.
As the show approaches its 30th anniversary, Truman begins to notice unusual occurrences: a stage light which serves as a star in the night sky falls from its position and nearly hits him; an isolated patch of rain falls only on him; he accidentally overhears the crew's radio transmissions precisely describing his movements through town; and finally the reappearance of his supposedly drowned father (who is rushed away by crew members before Truman can confront him). Truman suspects
Truman's suspicions culminate in a spontaneous attempt to escape the island, but he is caught and returned home under a flimsy pretext. There he confronts Meryl and challenges the sincerity of the marriages. Panicking, Meryl tries to change the subject by performing a product placement. In the ensuing confrontation, Meryl [[breaking character|breaks character]] and is removed from the show shortly afterward.
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