Nineteen-year-old author Horacio lives a quiet life—or so he thinks. After a sudden, vivid vision of a secret lab, a crazed scientist, and a terrifying doppelgänger named Horacio-V1, everything starts to change. The vision wasn't a dream. It was real. A glimpse into the past… of some "main timeline".
In the vision, Horacio-V1—a powerful version of himself—breaks free, kills the scientist who created him, and unleashes chaos. When Horacio awakens, his senses are sharper, reality feels off, and the strange events start to bleed into his normal life. Losing his watch in a gutter seems minor—until it becomes clear that time and identity are unravelling.
With no family left, a mysterious past haunting him, and a dark version of himself watching from the shadows, Horacio must uncover who—or what—he is, because this is no game. No retries. This is his life. And time is nearing its end.