Notes from the North American Crossing

In the freezer of the medical examiner's office, the dead can talk. Originally, Shi Xiang was only responsible for numbering, filing, and finishing the nameless corpses, until he discovered that those who died from work-related injuries, drug addiction, debts, disappearances, and "accidents" had all approached the same invisible line during their lifetimes. This line is not written in the autopsy report, but is hidden among bills, insurance, sensors, outsourcing contracts and shell companies. Ghosts are just echoes. What really turns living people into ghosts step by step is a system that sets a price for death. When statements began to leave testimony for the deceased, he became the next person to be erased from that line.