Cipher
In New York, identical twin brothers Roy and Jake Lang have built a strange arrangement around acting and identity: they alternate a single public persona known as Cipher. Their carefully controlled life is disrupted when classmate Anise Murphy challenges the distance and secrecy between them.
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In New York, identical twin brothers Roy and Jake Lang have built a strange arrangement around acting and identity: they alternate a single public persona known as Cipher. Their carefully controlled life is disrupted when classmate Anise Murphy challenges the distance and secrecy between them.
A character-driven 1980s shoujo drama about twins, performance and identity, set against a vividly American pop-cultural backdrop.
28 Chapters
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Cipher’s enduring appeal is how seriously it treats the psychological cost of being interchangeable: fame, friendship and romance all force the twins to define themselves separately.
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