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The Room 420

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Alex wakes up in his apartment, 420, trapped in a suffocating routine that repeats endlessly. Outside, the world moves forward, but he cannot—or will not—leave. Soon, reality begins to fracture: a female voice calls to him in his dreams, bloody drawings appear beneath his door, and every attempt to escape brings him back to the same place. The building becomes an impossible labyrinth, a loop with no way out. When he finally believes he has found a way to escape, Alex emerges into an abandoned zoo, submerged in an eternal night. There, the animals are not what they should be: deformed, decaying, and starving creatures wander among ruined enclosures. A deer with a split skull, an eyeless monkey whose flesh pulses, a flamingo with human features... Each step brings him closer to a truth he refuses to accept. Amid whispers, apparitions, and blurred hospital notes, Alex confronts the ghosts of his past. Guilt, hatred, and love intertwine in an ever-deeper descent into madness. Is he trapped in a purgatory created by his own mind? Or is he paying for sins he cannot even remember committing?
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