A young woman explains to her best friend that she is going to Prague the following year for a boy, Orgie. Orgie is half-French and half-Filipino; he is human. His father is the French Ambassador to the Philippines. The two first met at a party in Boracay. On this island, supernatural and fantasy creatures live among humans. The party was attended by a diverse collection of beings, including two humans: Orgie and the young woman. The story shifts to the past. At the party, the two are dancing together when the party is interrupted, as authorities found illegal fairy beer. Trouble escalates when authorities realized who Orgie is—the son of an important political figure. A golem, Orgie’s bodyguard, gets the two a car and takes them to an upscale resort. Over the next six days, they adventure together across the island and become familiar with each other. The girl learns that Orgie’s parents are never around, and his only intimate relationship had been with his ex-girlfriend. She also learns that Orgie is extremely intelligent—a borderline genius who is quite intuitive. They don’t sleep together, and the girl wonders whether she is Orgie’s type. However, on the fourth night of their time together, the girl finds a photograph of his ex-girlfriend who is quite like her. He says they are very similar. He says he will never hurt her. They go out together; Orgie makes observations about people, such as where they are from, what they are like, and the type of life that they live. One day, the girl speaks with one of the people he analyzed who admitted to divorcing three husbands—Orgie’s assumption was correct. One night, they stop at a bar.  The girl enters a competition and wins. A barfight ensues and Orgie defends her. The next morning, she wakes up to find Orgie already showered and reading the newspaper. Orgie tells her that two American tourists were murdered the previous night—and their livers were stolen. The tourists were the Dayton-Smiths, a father and son who regularly made trips to Boracay. An article covering the murder says that murders in Boracay are rare—and that there had been only one murder in 2017 which remains unsolved. Orgie becomes hooked on the story and begins his own investigation with the help of the girl. The popular theory was that the Dayton-Smiths were murdered by aswangs, malevolent shape-shifting beings appearing in Filipino folklore. Aswangs are the only supernatural figures on the island that eat human livers. Orgie does not think it is right to simply assume that an aswang committed the murders because they are “othered” as hostile beings. Orgie explains that he does not trust the competence of the police. Orgie has connections with the superintendent of the island because of his political network. After receiving a tour of the morgue from the police, Orgie, the superintendent, and the young woman go to the place where the Dayton-Smiths were staying: the Rue Apartelle. The house was messy and ten thousand dollars remained among the Dayton-Smith’s things. Orgie and the young woman found a knife in one of their travel bags. They send the knife off for genetic testing. Only two aswangs were present on the island that night: an elderly man and a very young child. The three interview them. It is concluded that neither of these individuals could have possibly committed the murders. Shortly thereafter, they received the results of the genetic testing. It turns out that there was blood on the knife. However, this blood was the blood of the girl who was murdered the previous year. It is concluded that the Dayton-Smiths committed the unsolved murder in 2017 of a young trans girl. Orgie concludes that the murderer of the Dayton-Smiths is someone who had a grudge against them and is also someone that they knew. Orgie explains that given the evidence, the murder was committed by a human, set up to frame the aswangs. He says that he believes he solved it but will not reveal it to her without hard evidence. The summer ends and the girl goes home. They still talk almost every day. In the present day, the girl explains this story to her friend. She says that she may not be as smart as Orgie, but she is not dumb. She infers that Orgie committed the murders as the murdered girl looked a lot like his ex; his father had relations with the company which hired the aswangs on another island. He was physically fit and enjoyed rock climbing, and he was angry when he realized the remaining aswangs hadn’t left. She was also asleep when the murders happened.