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You are Mohsen. An Iranian father. A nature explorer. A man who loves his 9-year-old daughter more than anything in the world. One night, after a bitter argument with his wife, Mohsen drives out to clear his head. His car runs out of gas on a desolate desert highway. He stops at a lone gas station in the middle of nowhere. While filling the tank, his phone rings. The voice on the other end is familiar. Painfully familiar. It's the man his wife left him for years ago — a man with a dark past, a man who was once something else entirely. A man known only as the Booklet Man. The Notebook Keeper. He holds secrets. "If you're a good father," the voice says, "come save your daughter." Mohsen rushes to leave, desperate to reach his car and find her. But before he can, someone strikes him from behind. Darkness takes him. He wakes in an abandoned hospital. Lights flicker. Hallways breathe. And somewhere in this decaying place, his daughter is waiting. The Guide is watching. The Guide is leading. But the Guide was wrong from the very beginning. Mohsen is trapped in a loop that never ends — because from that very blow, the world went dark. (It's unclear if this is reality or not.) The man with the dark past, the Booklet Man, the Notebook Keeper — he holds the secrets. Mohsen calls him The Guide, but Mohsen knows what a wretch he truly is. He has scattered pages throughout the hospital, the courtyard, the surrounding environments — pages of prayer writing, blackened family names (the Iranian tradition of dua-nevisi). These pages are the keys. His motive? His own twisted amusement. A twisted revenge for a past that already happened. Mohsen must give everything for his daughter. Otherwise, a bitterness will take root that he never wanted... This path is just a wrong guide...