The Valley of Absent Mourners

In the aftermath of a catastrophic glacial lake outburst that obliterates a mountain town in the fictional Soviet-bloc successor state of Karpathia, a disgraced hydrologist and a documentary filmmaker discover that five key officials remember the disaster warning meeting completely differently. As they navigate a labyrinth of doctored transcripts and coerced testimonies, they realize the lethal flood was not an act of nature, but a murder orchestrated by bureaucratic pride to bury an inconvenient truth.