Compassion's Cruel Edge

In the aftermath of the landmark Sanders v. Peters ruling that curbed solitary confinement, elderly recluse Arthur Crane discovers that society’s pity is a worthless currency. After a brutal home invasion, ignored by a system that values legal theater over real protection, he transforms his quiet house into a labyrinth of improvised, blood-soaked traps—proving that sympathy without institutional change is nothing but self-serving hypocrisy.