A drama about a paedophile who tries to justify his attraction to young boys as a police investigator puts him through an interrogation, trying to discover where he has hidden his most recent victim.

The spotlight is on Salvatore (Jeff Lefebvre) , the prisoner. His story is convoluted, repetitive, as he assures us he was only trying to help poor abandoned children by showing them the love their parents never gave them. As he repeats the story, more details emerge about his treatment of those children and about his own character. He is not a cult leader although he feels he must do this work, “ saving children” he smirks, he resists the pressure by the the police investigator to tell the truth, he insists on his godly mission and he often breaks into passages of prayer and incantation in Spanish. These moments were not at all clear because his Spanish was so badly pronounced it sounded completely garbled. In general this actor did not create a frightening character , but rather a disgusting heap of a man who was not interesting to watch.

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