Second chance

A wealthy, physically handicapped man revisits a traumatic childhood beating when he consults a scientist who claims to liberate a person's conscience and project it backward through time up to fifty years. After viewing a vivid replay of the past, he is offered a chance to direct that liberated self to alter a pivotal moment that shaped his life. The story follows the lead-up to and moral weight of that decision, exploring temptation, regret, and the practical and ethical complications of attempting to rewrite personal history while probing how identity and consequence persist across altered choices.