abyssal paths
Well Ahmed grows up in a city that smells of decay, trapped between a family incapable of loving him and a society that refuses to accept him. Burdened by his father’s shadow and his own sense of insignificance, he clings to a single dream: to become a writer, erase his name, and escape the life he was born into.
But ambition alone has never saved anyone.
On the morning of his first day at a new school, Well meets Aizak at a bus station—an older, reckless presence who offers him a lighter and, unknowingly, a path toward ruin. Through Aizak, Well is drawn into a circle that includes Rain and others who share the same hunger for meaning, recognition, and escape.
As their lives intersect through classrooms, public transport, and moments of quiet and public collapse, the dream that binds them begins to rot. What promises freedom reveals itself as humiliation, fragmentation, and slow self-destruction.
This is not a story about becoming someone.
It is a story about what remains when the dream consumes everything else.