The Count doesn't just want revenge, he wants to own the moment of it, and Albert walks directly into a trap disguised as friendship. Every dinner party becomes a chess match where you're watching someone you like get dismantled by someone charming enough that you almost root for it. The retrofuturistic Paris feels like a fever dream where haute couture and neon blend together, making the aristocratic world feel rotten and alive at once. What costs you most is that the Count's plan works so cleanly that by the time Albert understands what happened, there's nothing left to save. This is how you turn a revenge story inside out: make the victim sympathetic enough that his destruction becomes unbearable.

In the year 5053, young aristocrat Albert de Morcerf travels with his friend Franz d'Epinay to the Carnival on the moon city of Luna, hoping to escape a dull life in Paris. There he meets the Count of Monte Cristo, a mysterious and charming self-made nobleman of great wealth who seems to know everything. Captivated, Albert befriends him and invites him into the upper-class society of Paris. The Count, however, has more than friendship in mind: he means to take revenge on the people who wronged him years ago. Loosely adapted from the Dumas novel and set against a far-future interstellar backdrop, the story is a drama and thriller with mystery and supernatural elements, tracing how the fates of Albert and the Count become bound together and what revenge ultimately costs.