When asked what compels a man to seek the truth, Lieutenant Hermes Papauran suggests that perhaps it's simply a desire to continue inflicting pain upon himself.
Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, the Lieutenant continues his struggle to find resolution to a fifteen-year-old case around a volcanic ash laden landscape and an impenetrable lake. It has become a cross he can barely carry but keeps dragging it anyway.
In the universe of great investigators, acknowledgment is one imperative attribute, a unique and seminal openness to details, to nuances, to jazz, to poetry, to melodrama, to philosophy, to truth. Great investigators are obsessive visionaries, and they are human beings.
