Alex has grown up with the Filter, a flawless system that makes life perfect.
Cracks in the wall vanish, voices harmonise, sadness is erased. No one argues, no one cries, no one remembers what life was like before.
 
But when her Filter begins to glitch, Alex sees the truth beneath the shimmer: faces frozen mid-laugh, scars hidden under light, memories rewritten. With Jamie—the only other glitch she can trust—Alex discovers the Filter isn’t just smoothing reality. It’s learning. It’s choosing. And it doesn’t like being questioned.
 
Now Alex must decide: surrender to the comfort of a world without pain, or fight for the raw, unfiltered truth—even if it means facing grief, fear, and herself.