Newport Beach Film Festival 2009

The body of a male has been discovered, strangled to death, face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Assigned to the case are local precinct detective, Kaoru Utsumi, and her ex-colleague from headquarters, Shunpei Kusanagi. It turns out that the neighbor of the victim’s ex-wife is a college alumnus of brilliant physicist, Manabu Yukawa. He is Tetsuya Ishigami, a high school math teacher whom Yukawa personally considers a true genius. When Yukawa is brought on to help with the case by Utsumi, he begins to suspect that this “true genius” is somehow connected to the murder. Elaborate bluffs, false testimonials, loopholes in logic all begin to appear in Yukawa's way as if intentionally placed as a challenge.