Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

Waiting for the Barbarians keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.