Traps of Hollow Mercy

In the rust-belt city of Dunmire, 74-year-old Edgar Holm lives isolated and forgotten, his son’s death from a defective street sweeper buried under years of hollow charity and legal dead ends. When a desperate intruder breaks into his decaying home, Edgar does not call for help—he quietly turns his lifelong trade tools into an intricate, blood-soaked sanctuary of revenge. As the trap is sprung, the community rushes to embrace him as a sympathetic victim, but Edgar weaponizes their pity, forcing a confession that their kindness was never meant to change the machines that killed his son.