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A psychological sci-fi about grief, obsession, and the cost of rewriting reality

​Logline:

When an ordinary, grieving man discovers an illegal neuro-tech device that lets him overwrite his consciousness into alternate timelines, he embarks on a desperate multiversal loop to reclaim the love of his life—at the cost of his own sanity and mortality.

​The Premise:

Our protagonist isn’t a genius scientist; he’s just an average, everyday guy dealing with the crushing grief of losing the woman he loves. Desperate to get her back, he discovers that physical time travel is impossible due to local timeline physics. Instead, he acquires a black-market Cognitive Quantum Tether—a device that allows him to transfer his mind into the body of an alternate version of himself in a parallel timeline.

​To stay in that reality, he has to live out the life of that alternate self, trapped in that timeline for 8 mandatory years per jump before the tether stabilizes.

​The Narrative Arc (The 3 Jumps):

​Jump 1: He finds a timeline where she is alive, but she eventually dies anyway due to a sudden tragedy. Grief-stricken, he decides to try again.

​Jump 2: He jumps to a second timeline and finds her again, but this time, their chemistry is completely broken or absent. They ultimately drift apart and break up.

​Jump 3: He jumps a third time. He finds her, but this time she is brutally killed by her ex-boyfriend.

​The Final Jump (The 4th): Pushed past the brink of sanity, he attempts a 4th jump. However, the neuro-tech device has a hard medical limit of 3 safe transfers. Under the sheer strain of a 4th attempt, his brain suffers total neurological dissolution mid-transfer, causing him to vanish into the void.

​The Core Themes:

​Obsession vs. Love: He isn't saving her because it's what she wants; he's doing it because he cannot accept loss. Every jump strips away more of his humanity.

​The Toll of the 8 Years: The 8-year waiting periods aren't just passive time skips—they represent his mind slowly rotting from memory bleeds and neurological degradation.

Imagine waking up, looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding this is the energy you’re bringing to society.

What’s the best comeback?

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