Kaishaku

When a sociopath is speaking, being a good listener can cost you your soul.

After receiving a DUI, Dustin Dempster is working off some community service hours in a hospital. While there he’s asked to do some amateur counseling of difficult patients. He thinks this a waste of time, but he reluctantly agrees.

One of these difficult patients is Levon Howard, a man paralyzed from the neck down because of a car accident. He’s initially uncooperative, but after being charmed by Dustin’s brutal honesty and willingness to break some small hospital rules, he agrees to participate. Soon he’s revealing his darkest secrets to Dustin…

For Levon is a an obsessed and unrepentant killer of the worst sort, only with a personal quirk. Despite his revulsion, Dustin finds himself intrigued by Levon’s story. Soon he’s doing what was once unthinkable, and realizes that he’s being strongly affected by what he’s learned. Will Levon’s madness claim yet another victim, or even another perpetuator?