The Ashford Hinge

In the fictional nation of North Anduria, a misplaced fingerprint on a postal package sets off a catastrophic chain of events. When a respected immigration judge is found dead days before ruling on a landmark detention case, a guilt-ridden courier, a disgraced archivist, and a detained asylum seeker become entangled in a web of institutional decay. Justice, delayed by a labyrinth of bureaucratic indifference, becomes a slow, torturous erosion of the human soul.