When two aspiring documentarians embark on their first feature, they hear back from Noel, a man who has just been released from prison after a nine-year incarceration for a crime of passion. After several weeks of shooting, they inadvertently discover that Noel's story is fabricated: he has never been to prison. They soon find out he is an at-large and very active serial killer who has never been apprehended by authorities. Now too entangled and implicit in Noel's horrific crimes, the duo are stuck between doing the right thing and possibly making the most infamous documentary ever made