After his sister Shelly’s funeral, Caleb feels the world collapse—and then it literally turns. He awakens in the Upside Down, an inverted purgatory beneath reality where grief takes form and the masks people wear dissolve into raw, unfiltered truth.
He’s not alone. Maddy, the woman he once loved, has been trapped here for years. But this isn’t the Maddy he remembers. Broken, unguarded, and painfully honest, she delivers a gut punch with her first words: “I’m devastated you’re here.”
As Caleb searches for a way out, he discovers this realm isn’t his grief alone. Countless others exist both above and below—their surface selves cold and numb, while their inverted counterparts thrash with buried pain. And some, like Sebastian, thrive in the shadows, determined to keep others trapped in suffering.
To become whole again, Caleb and Maddy must confront not only the betrayals and secrets that broke them apart, but also the family wounds and hidden truths that have chained them here. Together, they must decide: face the traumas that destroyed them… or surrender to the Upside Down forever, where strangers wear the faces of who they used to be. And with their counterparts in the real world no longer speaking, staying below means letting each other go for good.
