City of Gauze and Stone

In 1938, a virulent fever silences tramlines and fills streets with gauze—then the Art Deco guardian over Central Square stirs. As quarantine tightens, a municipal bacteriologist and a crusading newspaperwoman lead a ragged band through shuttered theatres and antiseptic alleys to the statue's granite heart. Radio bulletins, rationed medicines and whispered superstitions collide; survival demands both labcraft and a reckoning with an old curse carved into the city's stone. A tense urban melodrama where modern science and ancient animus vie for the city's soul.