A middle-aged man has a bad romantic relationship with multiple women and has a bad authority problem.Kills his victims via guillotine he has made in his basement in rural Virginia.
"By 1948, beheading by the guillotine was still the official form of capital punishment in France. I was an executioner."
When one of the harshest winters in history ravaged the countryside, an executioner in the Bourgogne region faced an unusual increase in demand.
The dead brought along their stories.
The greatest truths are told by those about to die.