by wishy
"Life isn't a loop. It's just that you chose to accept it." Thirty-two-year-old Joseph Pereira lives a life dictated by routine in the quiet, modest town of Udin. Once driven by a fierce passion to explore the uncharted corners of the world, his dreams have succumbed to the numbing comfort of a daily cycle. He wakes up, goes to work, watches the rain fall from his porch, and goes to sleep—trapped in a loop of his own making. One night, his subconscious crafts a profound nightmare: a vision of his entire life flashing forward to old age, ending in the devastating realization that he cooked his own potential by choosing the cage of monotony. It is a warning meant to shatter his routine. But Joseph wakes up and forgets it completely. He steps right back into the loop, convinced he doesn't dream at all. What happens when a man who has forgotten his own soul's warning is suddenly forced to confront reality? When the artificial loop of his mundane life is forcefully disrupted by a chaotic world he can no longer predict, Joseph must finally open his eyes, break the cycle, and find the courage to explore—or be cooked by the routine forever.
