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Daniel Verastiqui

Daniel Verastiqui

09 Dec 2024 — 1 min read
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House of Nepenthe (2025)
When Kenneth Barnes takes a business trip to his old hometown, he finds himself on the wrong end of a gun. Now in the hospital in a coma, Kenneth’s life begins to flash before his eyes in the form of the House of Nepenthe, an infinitely large construct that contains the sum of all his memories.
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