Echoes of Transferred Pain

What is the price of a painless life when the cost is measured in the broken bones of your own child? From her silent vigil as a ghost on the French Riviera, Anna Laurent watches in helpless fury as her husband, Frédéric, turns her own brilliant invention—a pain-transference device—into a tool of systematic torture. To ensure his mistress can dance without suffering, Frédéric is willing to sacrifice the son he refuses to claim, transferring every fracture and ache to the six-year-old boy Anna died to protect. In this visceral tale of elite cruelty and vengeful justice, how far can a monster run before the spirits of those he broke rise to demand a debt that can only be paid in blood?