A blizzard wipes the map clean. Inside Rhode Island’s Exeter School, the road home vanishes for patient and superintendent alike. One lost in the whiteout, the other in the system’s quiet machinery — both searching for a way back. This episode unearths the human cost of state custody, the silent currency of labor, and the erased footprints left behind at the edge of a forgotten cemetery. Original records and a rare memory trace the journey from hope to anonymity inside the institution for the “feeble-minded.”

Music: “Endless Nightmare” by Oliver Garcia, licensed via Motion Array.