Sleepless

A town, on the brink of death…As the month of May rolls on, adeadly heatwave sets in. The hospital is overrun; talks about polluted water have made there rounds; a town is coming apart... When the son of local restaurant owner Oso Hanzo’s goes missing—Chief Constable Jo Kogotana is called to investigate.Doctor Takashi Tso discovers an alien object in the blood of a dozen people. Resources are drying up, Takashi struggles to understand what he has found.Madness is taking hold--more and more people vanish into the night. Talks of curses are whispered between the town’s children. The school is closed, the electricity is turned off, a fire sweeps the countryside, a ghost ship docks. The town elders gather and Jo struggles to keep control of his hometown.“You missed the razor's edge … there is a philosophy that states, ‘The world is never more than three days from anarchy.’ We are about to find out if that is true...our culture; it is a house sitting on the sand. There are things we have all talked ourselves into believing, ‘the home is sacred,’ ‘the water is clean,’ ‘money has value,’ ‘someone is looking out for us.’, ‘the law guarantees us safety.’ This foundation is eroding away... my father has moved into a position to try to slow the coming storm.”-Jin Kogotana-

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