The delirious journey of a mentally-disordered man who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.

With a strange and powerful obsession stemming from a pampered childhood during the tumultuous years of the Mexican Revolution, affluent bachelor and suave ceramist Archibaldo de la Cruz oscillates effortlessly between fantasy and reality, desire and hallucination. Compelled to taste again and again the delicious fruit of depravity that triggers an intense dark satisfaction, Archibaldo won't shy away from using one of his many shave-ready straight razors, bent on going to great lengths to quench his bloodlust. Undoubtedly, death encircles scheming Archibaldo, and the targets are always innocent women. However, is he truly capable of murder?—Nick Riganas

At the police station, Archibaldo de la Cruz relates the story of the murder of a woman, and insists that he is the murderer. He's a talented potter with refined manners, but he's mentally unstable. One night, he says, he went to a casino and met a beautiful woman; after fighting with her lover, the woman crashed her car and Archibaldo offered to drive her home, where he murdered her. Archibaldo is engaged to a very pretty Catholic girl, but before he met her became fascinated with Lavinia, a beautiful and nice lady. He had invited her to his workshop one afternoon, and she seized the opportunity to make a joke to the nervous Archibaldo. Are these events the product of a compulsive, sexually-frustrated, and unstable mind?—Alejandro Frias