Ash Vein

In a fading coal town, an old man exhumed from a 40-year prison sentence discovers his frame-up was not a conspiracy of geniuses but a chain of petty conveniences—a clerk's laziness, a foreman's grudge, a prosecutor's ambition. As he peels back the layers, he finds the real horror: no one remembered, no one cared, and the men who built the lie had already forgotten his name.