Infinite Ground

A semi-retired inspector is called in when a man disappears from a family dinner in an unnamed South American city. What first looks like a routine missing-person case quickly turns strange as the inspector interviews relatives, coworkers, and other witnesses whose accounts do not settle into a stable truth.

As he follows the trail into the missing man’s workplace and the corporation that employed him, the case becomes less about facts than about instability: actors may be standing in for real people, and clues in the body itself suggest disturbing biological abnormalities. The inspector’s search grows increasingly speculative, with competing theories about what happened to the missing man and what kind of reality the evidence can support.

The investigation eventually pushes outward from offices and city streets into the rainforest interior, where the atmosphere becomes more dreamlike and menacing. As the inspector goes deeper, the story becomes more ambiguous and disorienting, foregrounding uncertainty, bodily change, and the possibility that the search is altering him as much as it is uncovering anything about Carlos.