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Synopsis
After thirteen years of marriage, David Pepin still deeplyloves his wife, Alice -- yet he obsessively contemplates herdemise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraughtand the prime suspect.
The detectives investigating Alice s suspicious death haveplenty of experience with marital enigmas: Ward Hastroll andhis wife are happily married, until she inexplicably becomesvoluntarily bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitiveto marital guilt, having decades before been convicted andthen exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife.
These interlocking dramas pose a host of arresting questions.Is it possible to know anyone completely? Are murderand marriage two sides of the same coin? And what, in the end, is the truth about love?"