Long Synopsis — English

Inside a suffocating metallic cell buried beneath uncertainty, fear, and decay, Lukas awakens with no clear memory of how he arrived there. His only companion is Klaus: an unsettling, sharp-minded stranger who seems to know far more about him than should be possible.

As an unseen entity stalks the outside of their prison and the structure slowly sinks toward oblivion, Lukas is forced into a relentless confrontation with his own past, unresolved rage, emotional scars, and fractured sense of self. Klaus becomes both guide and tormentor, pushing him deeper into disturbing revelations where reality, memory, dreams, and hallucination intertwine.

What begins as a psychological captivity narrative gradually unfolds into a metaphysical descent through trauma, existential dread, social collapse, manipulation, distorted faith, toxic relationships, and the invisible chains that imprison the human spirit.

Set against the backdrop of a deteriorating world plagued by corruption, spiritual emptiness, authoritarian decay, and collective disillusionment, Kleithros explores the fragile boundary between salvation and self-destruction. The novel challenges the reader to question identity, free will, reality itself, and whether true liberation can ever emerge without first confronting the monsters within.

As the prologue to the universe of Knots & Blades, the novel lays the philosophical and emotional foundations of a saga where psychological warfare, symbolism, human fragility, and existential conflict become inseparable.