Zack throne was just another burnt-out soul in Hollywood — a once-passionate production manager turned jaded by the predators that ruled the industry from the shadows. For two decades, he witnessed the darkness behind the glamor, the dreams shattered by greed, and the innocent crushed by power. He tried to survive. But in 2025, after dying while saving a stray cat, fate gives him a strange gift — a second chance.
Now it's 1985.
Zack wakes up in the body of a struggling young man living in Alphabet City, Manhattan. The face is new, the past is unfamiliar, but the name is still his — Zack. With memories from both lives colliding inside his head and a mysterious, unpredictable "System" offering risky rewards and punishing penalties, he must navigate a dangerous neighborhood, a broken entertainment industry, and an America far different from the one he knew.
Armed with hard-won experience and a burning desire to protect the innocent, Zack sets out to chase two impossible dreams: becoming a star, and a director powerful enough to change the system. But in this strange version of the past — where timelines have shifted and pop culture is evolving differently — even his memories may not be enough to predict the future.
Can one man rewrite his fate, expose the monsters in the spotlight, and shine brighter than the stars he once served?
This is a story of ambition, vengeance, redemption — and the cost of dreaming in a world built to crush dreamers.