Crabs always walk sideways
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When the world you know starts to glitch, what do you trust? Your senses, your memories, or nothing at all?
One morning, Irene and Laurent's reality is just slightly... wrong. The silence is too heavy. Elements around the house changed. The pictures hung on the walls have never been taken. At first, it's easy to dismiss it on the account of dreams or exhaustion. But as reality crumbles piece by piece, the couple is forced to confront an impossible truth: the world around them isn't theirs, and they might just be trapped in another one that could be their doom if they're not careful enough.
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