Leashed

Leashed

After his son's suicide in a rented room, a grieving father is served an invoice instead of condolences: "A man died in my apartment—you pay." Dragging himself through train stations, hospitals, and police offices in an alien city, he's met with cold bureaucracy and cruel sneers: "Not an ounce of manhood in you." Back home, his only remaining family is a black dog chained in the shadows—a surrogate for his dead son and a mirror of his own existence, leashed by livelihood, gossip, and suffocating patriarchy. Stripped of his dignity and reduced to less than a dog, what does a man have left to become?