The perfect prison isn't one with walls. It's one you don't know you're in.
For Kaelen, every day is a flawless sequence of sterile routines in the gleaming, automated city of Aethelburg. But a crack is forming in his reality. He wakes with phantom memories that are not his own, a chilling sense of déjà vu, and the haunting feeling that he has lived this exact day thousands of time before. He is the glitch in a perfect system.
He soon discovers the horrifying truth: the world, and everyone in it, is trapped in a daily loop, its memory wiped clean by a mysterious and powerful event known only as the Ritual of Replay.
As Kaelen fights to hold onto his sanity, his resistance breaks the code of his reality. He begins to see the glitches the system tries to hide: conversations that repeat verbatim, pedestrians frozen mid-stride, and mirrors that reflect not his face, but the desperate, pleading ghost of a past self. He is not alone in his awareness. He finds others?a rebel hell-bent on shattering the system, a weary mentor who collaborates with the loop to survive, and a silent child who remembers every single cycle but cannot speak.
Hunted by the system's terrifying agents?Guardians who can unwrite reality itself?Kaelen must unravel the ultimate conspiracy. Is the loop a prison designed by a malevolent god? A bug in the fabric of the universe? Or something far more complex and terrifying?
To break free, he must confront the Architect of the loop and make an impossible choice: reset his own mind and return to the blissful ignorance of the cage, shatter the loop and risk the total annihilation of reality and everyone in it, or seize the power to become the new Loopmaster... and rewrite the code of existence itself.
A mind-bending philosophical thriller that blends the dystopian tension of 1984 with the reality-warping action of The Matrix and the psychological depth of Westworld, CTRL + R is a relentless, cinematic journey into the heart of memory, choice, and what it truly means to be free.
