Steel Beneath Silence

In the crumbling factory town of Ashwick, elderly Arthur Mercer's disability claim is denied by the callous Commonwealth Bureau of Welfare, leaving him to rot. When a string of burglaries targets the powerless, Mercer stops waiting for a system that has already buried him. He turns his decaying home into a meticulously engineered abattoir, proving that a society's discarded can forge a brutal reckoning—and that sympathy without action is the most lethal lie.