Chapter 24

He swore to betray neither the accused, nor society, nor the victim. Nobody told him the three could pull against each other.

What he saw proves nothing. That is exactly what makes the silence impossible to keep — and impossible to break.

What remains is twenty-eight days of a closed room in which an ordinary man discovers that he is not being asked for the truth: a map projected on a Thursday afternoon, a repair invoice timed at 11.20 p.m., a fifteen-year-old son who believes his father is ill, a mother of sixty-seven who tells the court she only wants to know — and seven hours and forty minutes behind a locked door.

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