This documentary tries to tell the story of a French woman called Florence Cassez that happened 17 years ago in Mexico, so there's little to make the viewer care for the shady people involved.
The story spawns into numerous threads, with myriad details that make it very confusing. The documentary provides no clear answers to anything; instead, it presents conflicting statements.
One of the people interviewed for this documentary says, "there are many versions of the story", and this series makes it hard to keep track of them all.
Florence joins her brother, who does business in Mexico and is married with a Mexican woman, and she gets entangled with a Mexican con man called Israel Vallarta, who is a car thief, and a kidnapper.
Even the question whether she's married or not to Israel doesn't hold a clear answer: most of those interviewed refer to him as her husband, but she denies it.
First Florence gets kidnapped, then she's accused of abiding kidnappings perpetrated by Israel. One witness states that "everyone in Mexico believes Florence is guilty", but Florence herself claims to be a victim.
There are too many unsavory characters involved, and conflicting statements. Everyone seems to be lying, or provide a very biased account, so the facts are murky.
There are also accusations of corrupt politicians and incompetence from AFI (an organization similar to the FBI in USA), staged kidnapping, torture, la whole circus by a media thriving on scandal.
It's difficult to make sense of the story, especially because I honestly lost interest midway through episode 2, but it starts with the fact that, while doing business in Mexico, the French siblings got mixed up with some unsavory characters, and one of the Mexican investors kidnapped the French woman and her Mexican beau in retaliation for some perceived slight.
I admit not knowing anything about Florence Cassez until now, but watching this documentary today didn't make learning about this case an interesting proposition.
So I gave up watching this messy documentary mess because I couldn't care less about what happened 17 years ago to some greedy liars in Mexico.
