You don't choose where you start out in life, that's just how it goes, but sometimes that starting point can be very, troubling. In darkness and mystery our character begins trying to figure out why he's in a very dark place with no way out, and no idea of who or what he is. It's a curious story where instead of things starting out easy and then progressively getting harder our main character must already find out how to get out of the dead end scenario with next to nothing to help. This fact and other horrors he learns along the way will make it clear he must already start preparing for the end or at least his own.