One searches for a missing loved one, desperate to make sense of a vanishing no one wants to explain. The other, marked by a past full of regrets and bad decisions, knows the city's shadows better than most—and what they cost.

Thrown together by fate and held together by necessity, they begin digging into a world built on silence and fear. What they find beneath the surface is more than corruption—it's a machine that feeds on suffering, and it's been running far longer than either imagined.

As they press forward, uncomfortable truths about their own connections to that machine rise to the surface. Loyalty fractures. Moral lines shift. And still, the danger circles closer.