Asphalt Requiem

In the fractured Rustbelt republic of Meridia, the acquittal of a police officer for the on-camera killing of a young dockworker shatters the brittle peace. Two men—Calvin Voss, a guilt-haunted ex-cop carrying the original footage, and Marcus Duvall, the dead man’s brother seeking retribution—flee into the endless sagebrush highways, hunted by a death squad from the Internal Compliance Unit. As they drive deeper into the wasteland, the secrets they carry and the betrayal festering between them transform their flight into a mutual death march, proving that a society in transition never truly purges its poisons; it just buries them under asphalt.