You understand, at some level, that institutions don't work the way they claim. You see the corruption clearly. You know the systems were designed to serve themselves, not you. And you feel utterly powerless to change any of it. What if someone decided that helplessness was the real disease— and consciousness was the only cure?Tina Feller is an EU intelligence operative who returns to her declining Belgian hometown carrying one certainty: institutional systems fail. What she discov...