Welcome to Chicago, Illinois
In the Art Institute’s armory, chance intertwines the lives of two individuals. Before their fateful meeting, he is a doctoral student entangled in the complexities of time travel contemplation, managing his destructive thoughts with meticulous calculations. She, on the other hand, is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. As the story unfolds, these aspects remain unchanged.
However, this narrative isn’t about conclusions.
Because everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn’t.
Regan finds herself navigating life’s finish line marked by mutual disappointment. Her response to the mundanity of existence involves projecting into imagined multipotency, weaving new destinies with each impulsive decision. For Aldo, life is a constant plague—a framework of rules and formulas that maintains his equilibrium. Without these structures, his entire existence would crumble.
Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.
Both resign themselves to the blueprints of inevitability until six conversations with a stranger introduce a variable that disrupts the entire simulation. The tale explores the intricacies of their lives, providing a glimpse into the unexpected twists that emerge from seemingly random encounters and the transformative power of human connection.
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