Three Irish fishermen find a cache of intimate toys which is soon linked by police to a decomposed body found seventeen miles away, featuring first-hand accounts of experts, observers and journalists who covered the case.

During the feverish search for the perpetrator of 36-year-old Elaine O'Hara, Irish police officers come across the victim's secret double life - in which erotic fantasies, power and dependence played a tragic role.

The murderer is now caught and exposed, and hundreds of people testify against him in the longest trial in Irish criminal history.