Slow Justice

In the bleak winter of 1987, in the fading industrial town of Thornbridge, a federal clerk's routine filing error triggers a cascade of lethal coincidences—linking a disgraced war veteran, a weary immigration officer, a desperate single mother, and a vengeful union steward. As the courts grind through procedural motions, the living are slowly unmade not by the crime itself, but by the weight of waiting for a verdict that arrives too late to salvage anything but bitter ashes.