Reset: The High Cost of a Second Chance

Fifty-five-year-old Lamberto Imperial is a man haunted by the wreckage of his own life-a trail of failed business deals, a marriage lost to his own ego, and the crushing realization of wasted time. Consumed by regret, he travels to the mystical Mount Banahaw, hoping to find a way to "reset" his existence and rewrite his history. What he discovers instead is a terrifying, recursive loop: a supernatural purgatory where his obsession with perfection forces him to endlessly relive his mistakes in increasingly distorted realities.
To survive, Lamberto must engage in a grueling internal war, forced to confront his "Shadow"-the embodiment of his failures-and reject the parasitic, artificial versions of success he created to hide from his true self. Reset: The High Cost of a Second Chance is a psychological journey through the fragility of memory and the high cost of vanity. It is a story about a man who realizes that the only way to truly "fix" his past is to stop fighting the clock, dismantle the monuments of his ego, and finally bear the weight of his own humanity.