Arcana
Adam Bright, who was a genius university professor, but at some point, he lost his mind to a story, that whoever hears it from him, loses his mind, too. Ali, and aspiring author, pleads to his friend, Rob, who works in a mental hospital, to meet the professor. He refuses at first but then accepts as Ali offers him a bribe.
And so, Ali fakes an ID to meet the professor as a distant relative. Ali finds the professor, who looks like Zues, mysterious and intimidating, yet didn't seem mentality disturbed to an extent that made the hospital administration to isolate him. They even insisted that Ali sign a 'term and agreement form' that waves his rights to sue the hospital in case of any mental of phycological damage he attains from contacting the professor.
As Ali visits the professor and listens to the story, it turns out that the story consists of four stories, in which forbidden knowledge is embedded. The more he digs into the story, the more he realizes the magnitude of scarifies he has to endure and figures out how dangerous the journey is, especially when he comes face to face with Angela, a leader in an ancient organization that aims to control people through the stories they hear and to acquire and keep forbidden knowledge hidden in ancient stories. Ali finds himself in a midst of a cold war between the professor's ancient organization, 'The Pen Keepers', and Angela's organization, as the professor aims to release the forbidden story to masses through Ali, while Angela aims to hide and twist, the mind binding truth, to be written by Ali.
As the situation escalates, Ali will release that there is no safe way out of it, except through it.
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