On the last night of an old cinema in the south of the city, projectionist Lin Dong receives an unmarked reel of film. At midnight, the screen lights up. He walks through it and falls into a show currently playing: Ningzhou, a small southern town, during the summer of 2005. Three children stand outside the youth center, gazing toward Mount Liufeng.
From that moment on, he becomes a "Wanderer": an outsider who can step into the real worlds of films and television.
The summer of The Bad Kids, the rooftop in Infernal Affairs, the train in Train to Busan, the door in The Truman Show... Every work he's seen is waiting for him to rewrite its ending. But each time he changes something, the plot deviation score rises by one point. At 60%, the world will launch its deletion protocol.
He can only tread as lightly as if entering a screening room: save those who were meant to die, protect what was meant to fall apart, then leave before dawn.
Until he discovers that every story is waiting for the same ending, and he isn't the first person to walk through the screen.
That projector has been waiting for him to return all along.
