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Genre: Sci-Fi | Psychological Horror | Post-Apocalyptic Drama
When the world burned, four teenagers survived.
Milo, Rae, Ava, and Silas didn't ask to live through the end - but they did. Now, stuck in a ruined world of silence, shadows, and memories that aren't always their own, they fight to stay human in a landscape shaped by something unnatural.
But survival gets more complicated when they uncover a chilling truth: the apocalypse wasn't a disaster. It was a test. A controlled experiment under the name Project Loci - and they were its subjects.
Now stalked by cloned imposters, haunted by flickers of who they used to be, and drawn toward a signal no one else is meant to hear, the group must decide what they're willing to lose to uncover the truth... and what might already be lost.
Because in a world built from lies, the biggest question isn't what happened.
It's who are you now that everything's gone?
What will happen once one dies?
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