Written by: Julie Kimbrell and Pearry Teo

Rodrigo Alvarez, a Hispanic immigrant who fancies himself a poet, lives a humdrum life as an
assistant in a butcher shop, but when his boss refuses to pay him and he’s under pressure to send money back to his family in Mexico, Alvarez snaps and commits a crime of passion. After
murdering his boss he covers up the crime by butchering the body and selling the meat in the shop
then takes over the business under the pretext that he bought it. However, Alvarez has no
experience running a butcher shop and dealing with suppliers, so he must look for another means
of obtaining product. Soon prostitutes are disappearing from the neighborhood and Rosario Vasquez,
a detective with the LAPD, conducts her own investigation when a valued street contact is among them. Her lieutenant wants her to stay focused on another case, but Vasquez goes undercover in hooker garb to locate her contact only to find herself next on the menu when she follows a lead to Alvarez. Kidnapped and chained in the basement of the butcher shop, Vasquez has to use her cop training and hard-headed will to survive. Alvarez has concocted a formula for torture, reasoning
that adrenaline makes human meat the right consistency, and Vasquez is challenged with keeping
two other young women alive. On the outside, Vasquez’ partner Davis traces her whereabouts.
Just when there is hope of rescue, Davis is killed and butchered, tipping Vasquez closer to the
edge and sparking a vicious urge for revenge. Will she give in to her own rage as Alvarez did to
his, or hold out for legal justice?