Circumstantial Murder

A routine morning in the city goes off course when a municipal garbage truck strikes a man who works with medical supplies, just after he has finished breakfast. Soon after, police find a corpse in a public park, its skull partly removed and its brain missing. Puzzling visitors then arrive, each recounting an odd story of scheming that stretches across three continents and moves between mid-twentieth-century technology and ancient practices of cannibalism and head-taking. As these accounts pile up, it becomes clear that none of the characters are who they claim to be.