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This film is both riveting and fun whilst looking into the darkest parts of the human heart. The astonishing story of the obsessive roller coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the US during the summer of 1959.

Burt Pugach, a 32-year-old married attorney and Linda Riss, a beautiful, single 20-year-old girl living in the Bronx, had a whirlwind romance. This culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed Burt in prison and stirred up an endless saga of news and magazine headlines. With the cooperation of Burt, now 80 and Linda, now 70, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness.