The Revenge of One Humiliated
A stubborn local journalist, sitting on a concrete bench, with a dying father, a ghost mother, a rival sister in tatters, and a bank account as flat as this city's horizon.
The car parks far away. The driver's door opens. A man gets out. Tall. A well-cut dark coat. A presence. Even from a distance, you can tell he's an outsider, someone who doesn't walk at the same pace as the paving stones here. He observes the buildings, the hospital, with an expression that is neither worried nor lost, but… assessing. As if inspecting a potential site.
Then he turns his back and walks away, heading towards the city center.