The reason fans obsess over collecting goes beyond completionism. Regret Island taps into a universal fear: the terror of being trapped by your own mistakes. Each character represents a different way people cope with regret:
He found a row labeled 1998 . He touched a withered vine. Instantly, he saw himself standing at a train station, holding a ticket to a city he never moved to, watching a girl whose name he’d tried to forget. The vine pulsed with a sickly warmth. regret island all scenes best