Issei Sagawa killed and partially ate a fellow student in Paris in 1981, then walked free and became a minor celebrity in Japan. The film traces his path from a childhood fascination with Western culture through his move to France, where he shot and dismembered Renée Hartevelt, a Dutch classmate. French authorities declared him legally insane and unfit for trial, deported him to Japan, and released him from custody there, at which point his notoriety turned into a career: talk show appearances, books about his crime, and a stint as a restaurant critic. Interviews with Sagawa himself sit alongside accounts from people who knew him, and the film does not soften the details of the killing or its aftermath. Its real interest is the second half of the story, the Japanese public's willingness to turn a self-confessed killer into a tabloid fixture, and what that says about celebrity, punishment, and the gap between them. Produced by Visual Voodoo for Channel Five.