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"How much do you know about your death?"

On the morning of his 18th birthday Ali woke up to his family home unusually silent, and deserted. He soon learns that he never lived the childhood he remembers and all his memories up until that point are fake. He is now alone, and an occupant of the Drift, an entity where deceased children coexist as their adult selves, with the ability to view a parallel version of their being in a separate, fictional world, without any influence or control over this life path.

Almost three years on, Ali has settled into a routine, but events from the real world he was taken from as a child begin to impact on the limits of his existence as he develops a strange connection with a fellow occupant seeking an unprecedented truth that surfaces a disturbing past and will forever bind together multiple souls.

Follow Ali and three others over the course of a mind-bending week as each seeks comfort and answers from their existence.

Content/trigger warnings include: Alcoholism; Attempted sexual assault; Cancer; Child abuse (referenced); Domestic abuse (referenced); Estrangement; Grief / Loss; Hallucinations / Delusions; Murder (referenced); Physical injury & wounds; Profanity; Torture / psychological torture

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