Wealthy
tax attorney Henry Hearst is about to give a speech at an exclusive fundraising party in
San Juan,
Puerto Rico, as the city celebrates the
San Sebastián Festival. He is called to the
Puerto Rico Police station to be questioned about the body he found the day before – that of a young girl who had been
raped and
murdered. Hearst changes his version of events several times; Captain Victor Benezet and Detective Felix Owens question him about inconsistencies in his story. Hearst quickly realizes that they think he committed the murder, as well as that of another young girl whose body was found days earlier, but at this stage of questioning he is unalarmed. Benezet is under pressure from his boss to free Hearst so that he can give his speech. As there is no conclusive proof, Benezet's superior at the party says to let Hearst at least come to the party and give his fund raising speech. After a fracas at the police station, Hearst arrives, disheveled, at the party, gives his speech, and is then escorted back to the police station. At the party, a crowd is gossiping and Chantal, Hearst's much younger wife, has to keep her face emotionless. She is questioned later about why she and her husband sleep in separate rooms. Little by little, the story that each of them tells changes, always casting Hearst in a worse light. Hearst first blames Chantal for being jealous. Then, it is discovered he likes cheap, young prostitutes and visits
pornography websites featuring barely legal-age women. Hearst says that Chantal and her brother-in-law, artist Paco Rodriguez, are lovers. Chantal says that she saw Hearst with her 13-year-old niece Camille, giving her presents and trying to seduce her. She also says that on the night of one of the recent murders she saw her husband washing his blood-stained clothes at night. Hearst adamantly denies
molesting Camille, but admits that he has a fondness for younger women. Chantal, the legal owner of the mansion where they live, permits the police to search the premises for hard evidence linking her husband to the murders. In the dark room, they find photographs of the two murdered girls. When the photographs are shown to him at the police station, Henry says that he can't believe Chantal would go this far. Hearst, deeply hurt at this betrayal by his wife, and apparently feeling that this is the only thing that will satisfy her, begins to confess to the murders, utilizing the details that had been revealed to him by Benezet during interrogation. While still recording Hearst's confession, Benezet is notified that the real killer has been arrested, having been "
caught in the act", and with damning photographs of his other victims. Benezet and Owens free Hearst, who is still badly shaken by what he has gone through in the previous hours. Chantal attempts to connect with him outside the police station, but he cannot forgive her and walks away into the crowd of San Sebastián Festival revelers. ==Cast==