The Banal Frontier

On a mist-shrouded border between the states of Yamakuni and Seoryeong, patrol officer Takeshi Mori drifts into a smuggling conspiracy. As a historic forced-labor lawsuit unfolds in the capital, he discovers that the real atrocity is not the guns and drugs passing through the jungle, but the placid, self-justifying machinery of lawyers, judges and bureaucrats who turn ordinary duty into a weapon of erasure.