Every picture tells a story.
Every tag carries a price.

When high school sophomore Maya Serrano is dragged to a house party in Roosevelt, she thinks the worst that can happen is waking up with embarrassing photos online. But when her best friend Lexi vanishes hours after being tagged in a photo, Maya's world fractures. A cursed chain has begun — one that links names, faces, and lives. Whoever is tagged disappears within twenty-four hours.

At first, no one believes her. Not Lexi's boyfriend Jordan, who insists she just ran away. Not the teachers who call it teen hysteria. Not the town already drowning in its own secrets. Only Noah, a hacker obsessed with breaking digital curses, is willing to look deeper. What he uncovers is worse than any rumor: every photo, every tag, every name feeds something vast and hungry — a system that doesn't just erase people, but rewrites reality itself.

As the curse spreads beyond Roosevelt, Maya is marked as its center. Her little brother Daniel becomes the next to glow beneath its pull. Every choice she makes cuts deeper: fight to keep herself whole, or risk dissolving into the Anchor the system demands she become.

What begins as a desperate race against a 24-hour countdown spirals into a war across timelines, reflections, and the very code of the world. Faithful followers crown her as savior. Deniers hunt her as a curse. And through it all, Maya is forced to confront the most horrifying question of all:

What if saving the ones she loves means losing herself forever?

Tagged and Taken is a relentless digital horror-thriller about the chains we choose and the ones we inherit, the fragility of identity in a world built on names, and the unbearable choices we face when survival demands sacrifice.

Fans of The Ring, Black Mirror, and House of Leaves will find themselves caught in its mirror — a story that begins with a simple photo tag, and ends with a choice that can unravel everything.

In the age of infinite reflection, what survives when the system owns your name?