The Banal Frontier

In the sweltering jungle border between New Albion and San Pedro, Border Patrol officer Elias Vance discovers that the true horror does not lie in the brutal drug cartels, but in the quiet, dutiful men who enforce the rules. As he is pulled into a machinery of smuggling and bureaucratic cruelty, every stamp on a form becomes an act of destruction. A transgender asylum seeker named Marisol becomes the mirror to his soul—and the catalyst for a descent into a hell made not of monsters, but of ordinary, rule-abiding men.