Investigative journalist Evie Ross has spent years studying disappearances and the strange patterns they leave behind. In Ashwood, those patterns don’t just appear in people, they also appear in the town itself.
A Catholic academy that closed suddenly in 1979, its campus still standing behind locked gates. A bank that has outlived every regional merger and financial collapse. A factory founded in the 1960s that employs half the town, even though few people can clearly explain what it produces.
Individually, each of these institutions has a history that raises questions.
Taken together, they suggest something else — a town where certain structures seem to operate quietly in the background, long after the reasons for their existence should have disappeared.
This is Absentia.
Where Silence Becomes Evidence.