The Wall’s Backdoor

In the Federated States of Andova, a monolithic wall separates the impoverished Northern Exclusion Zone from the prosperous South. When Mara Young’s mother is dying from a treatable illness, she discovers a clandestine tunnel used by the powerful to circumvent trade embargoes. Echoing the social realism of Cho Nam-joo, Mara’s journey through the loophole-ridden Border Security Act exposes how legal gaps are deliberately woven to serve as backdoors for the elite, forcing her to commit survival crimes that could rewrite the fates of two divided families.