The Unwritten Rules of a Given World

Tim is an ordinary teen trying to piece his life together after the world he knew was upended. The pandemic lockdowns derailed his plans for college and left him questioning his purpose. Caught between the remnants of youthful dreams and the looming shadow of adulthood, Tim sets out to make sense of himself during his last free months before reality demands answers.

But Tim has always longed for something extraordinary to make life interesting again and exciting. He’s spent years dreaming of impossible worlds, of magic and wonder, of something, anything, that might get his brain turning again.

Caught between a life he feels disconnected from and a world that could unravel him, Tim faces a choice: retreat to the safety of ignorance or risk everything for a chance to understand the rules that bind the world—and himself.