Fists and Fabrications

In a fictional East Asian republic, a young factory worker enters the brutal world of underground boxing to pay for his dying mother's surgery. As a high-profile shareholder lawsuit exposes a corporate giant's data fraud, he discovers that the evidence linking executives to a deadly blood sport is being twisted by everyone who sees it—lawyers, cops, and the media. A gritty noir in the style of Fred Vargas, where clues speak loudly but the interpreters are deafened by their own biases.