A botanist, Daniel, inherits an estate with a legendary garden full of mysterious reflective ponds. Each reflection shows not the present, but potential futures—some dark, some hopeful.
As Daniel experiments, he notices that his actions begin to align with the disturbing futures, almost as if the garden predicts and shapes reality simultaneously.
The climax: Daniel must destroy the mirror garden to reclaim control over his life, but doing so risks losing the knowledge of what could have been and permanently altering his destiny.
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