The Armistice™
A family attempts to resurrect a dead holiday and accidentally summons the truth they’ve spent decades refusing to name. The series codifies nostalgia as a containment protocol that collapses the moment memory is forced to behave like law.
This IP reframes tradition as a psychological operating system that fractures under scarcity, converting holiday ritual into a governance model built on denial. It destabilizes the myth of “family unity” by mapping how curated memories escalate into surveillance, arbitration, and soft authoritarianism. It restores cultural relevance by formalizing a new subgenre: domestic ritual-horror that indicts the weaponized nostalgia keeping collapsing societies trapped in yesterday.