1984

On every landing the poster watches him: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Winston Smith lives in a London of crumbling concrete, gin that burns like acid and telescreens that never sleep, where the Party rewrites yesterday's newspaper before breakfast and love or a private thought can be a crime. At the Ministry of Truth he spends his days altering records to match the Party line, and his nights wondering if anything he remembers is true. Then he buys a blank diary and starts to write what he must never say, and a dark-haired girl from work slips him a note that changes everything. To stay human he must risk trusting another mind in a world built to make trust impossible.