If you saw him in the street, he wouldn't rate a second glance. Armin Meiwes looks ordinary, but he's not; Meiwes is a cannibal.

In March 2001, he killed a man and ate him with a glass of fine red wine. When a shocked worldwide public learned of this inconceivable crime, they had one simple question: Why?

In Interview With a Cannibal, we begin to understand how two hitherto respectable and intelligent men, Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes, made an unwritten agreement in which one of them butchered the other, at his request, and consumed him . . . piece by piece.