Aria, a travel blogger, discovers a remote village in the mountains that doesn’t appear on any map. The villagers are friendly but behave strangely—no one seems to age, and everyone avoids talking about the town’s history.
Curiosity drives Aria to explore abandoned houses and old records. She finds journals describing events from decades ago, but strangely, they describe her own arrival in detail. Each night, she experiences vivid dreams where she lives the villagers’ lives from the past, slowly realizing that she might be part of a cyclical trap: newcomers arrive, replace residents, and forget their previous life.
The climax comes when Aria must escape before she loses her own identity forever, discovering a secret tunnel that leads to the truth behind the village and a mystical artifact keeping time frozen.
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