Armin Meiwes killed and ate a man he met online, filming the act himself, and this film sits with the case rather than sensationalizing it. In 2002 Meiwes found Bernd Brandes through an internet forum for people interested in cannibalism; both men later claimed the killing was consensual, arranged and carried out with Brandes's cooperation. Psychologists, criminologists, and forensic experts walk through what the case file and video evidence actually show, while interviews with Meiwes himself lay out, in his own words, how he planned and justified what he did. Friends and neighbors describe a man who seemed ordinary, holding down a job and a normal social life while hiding what he was arranging online, and the film uses that gap to ask how someone commits an act this extreme without anyone around him noticing. It also traces the internet forum itself, the space where Meiwes and Brandes found each other and where the anonymity of online communities let both men act on fantasies neither could have pursued so easily in person.