Synopsis

Katie Armstrong, a young American woman studying Criminal Psychology in Germany finds herself inexplicably drawn to a murder case which would soon become the subject of her thesis. The psychology behind Oliver Hartwin, a homosexual cannibal killer who advertised on the Internet for a lover willing to be murdered and devoured as the ultimate act of love and self-sacrifice. As a woman whose past relationships have all failed, Katie doubts her own ability to find love and becomes obsessed with understanding their relationship. While researching Oliver, Katie becomes entrenched in his life, and begins delve deeper and deeper into his past. She explores his childhood and the childhood of his victim looking for any clues as to what made him become what he is today. Piece by piece she fleshes them up by retracing both of their lives systematically. Their homes, their jobs, their relationships. From children into adulthood, she begins to lose herself in their story. With every new discovery, her emotions begin to get the better of her. Katie lets herself go, compulsively plunging into a deeply alienated lifestyle. This downward spiral culminates in the discovery of the video-tape made by Oliver recording the final moments of his victim’s life. Witnessing the courtship between the two men, and the final atrocity of the killing, Katie hits rock bottom. At the base of her own emotional sanity, she discovers the inner strength to pick herself and begin the smallest steps to rebuilding her life.Check out this news post!

Official Review

On March 9, 2001, Armin Meiwes, a computer expert met Bernd Brandes, a 43-year old engineer. What happened later that night would shake the German legal system to its very foundation. Meiwes, with the explicit consent of Brandes, severed the man’s penis, cooked it and served it to the pair for dinner. Later Meiwes would kill Brandes with a butcher knife and over the course of the next several weeks, cook and eat over 20 kilos of his flesh. The pair met in a cannibal chat room where Meiwes was searching for someone to eat and Brandes was looking to be consumed. Armin Meiwes was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 8 ½ years in prison. In April 2005, he was retried for murder and subsequently sentenced to life in prison. …Read More