Armin Meiwes is a soft-spoken former computer technician from the German town of Rotenburg who, in 2001, killed and ate a man he met through an internet forum for people interested in cannibalism. His victim, Bernd Brandes, had answered the same online post and reportedly agreed to be killed and consumed, a detail that turned the case into a legal puzzle: Germany had no specific law against cannibalism, and courts struggled over whether consent could apply to one's own death. The film builds around interview footage of Meiwes himself, who describes his childhood, his fantasies, and the killing in flat, matter-of-fact language that unsettles more than any dramatization could. Investigators and legal commentators fill in the trial, which eventually settled on a manslaughter conviction before a retrial upgraded it to murder. There is little sensationalism in the presentation; the camera mostly just lets Meiwes talk, and the case's strangeness carries the film without added embellishment.