Zippy Zephyr thinks he’s writing a safe detective mystery — until his manuscript betrays him, replacing clues with kisses and inserting his girlfriend Ezme into the story. Soon the glitch spreads: café menus rearrange, napkins scrawl love notes, and whole clichés crash into real life. When his deleted villain, “The Blade,” strides into his apartment and Ezme begins flickering between tropes, Zippy realizes the truth: a mysterious “Ghostwriter” is rewriting both his novel and his life.
As Zippy fumbles to confess his feelings to Ezme, every attempt is hijacked — by parades, superheroes, cookie-fortune prophecies, even insults written in lightning across the sky. The more he resists, the more chaotic the storyworld becomes, until Zippy faces an impossible choice: play the Ghostwriter’s game of clichés, or lose Ezme forever.
Episode 1 ends with Zippy bloodied, humiliated, but defiant — vowing to take the pen back and rewrite his love story before someone else writes him out for good.