Beneath the Gavel

In the bleak industrial town of Verdon, the Harpers spend fourteen years searching for their abducted son. When they finally uncover the truth—that a well-documented administrative error in the Social Welfare Tribunal buried their case file, allowing the perpetrator to keep the child under a forged identity—they find the law offers no remedy, only a pristine record of procedural compliance. Their final act turns a courtroom into a stage for grief's last verdict.