The Boss Behind the Mask Was My Father

For two years, Nadia and her mother have survived a nightmare. Trapped in a so-called survival game with no choice but to defeat its final boss, they endure hunger, cruelty, and despair while holding on to a promise: that Nadia’s father would come to save them.
Then the boss removes his mask. It’s her father.
And the truth is worse than any game. There was no system, no escape to win, only a vast, horrific punishment her father devised to appease Ivy, while his wife and daughter faced it as “actors” who never knew the cameras were rolling. When the director calls “cut,” the crew walks away laughing. But Nadia’s mother isn’t acting. She’s dying and Teddy refuses to believe it, turning his back on them both.
Nadia, buried in the dust with the truth and her grief, finally understands what her father is. He thinks the nightmare is over. For him, it’s just the beginning.