Question: Build a movie plot around this: What happens when Irene finishes reading? she and Benjamin still seek inspiration for a suitable ending
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(Note: in this summary, last names describe the characters in the fictionalized novel of the 1970's history of law enforcement officer Benjamin "Esposito", first names describe the people in retiree "Benjamin" Esposito's modern world.)Retiree Benjamin Esposito is having trouble getting started on his first novel. He pays a visit to the offices of Judge Irene Menendez Hastings to tell her about his plans to recount the story of the Liliana Coloto case, the one they both worked on 25 years before, when Irene was his new department chief and he was the federal agent assigned to the case. Irene suggests that Benjamin start at the beginning.The beginning marks the discovery of Coloto's body, raped and murdered in her home in 1974. Esposito promises her widower, Ricardo Morales, that the killer will do life for his crime. Morales states that he opposes the death penalty. Esposito's investigation is joined by his alcoholic friend and assistant, Pablo Sandoval, and the Cornell Law School-educated Hastings. Before the three can start, their rival, Romano, tries to show them up by having officers beat a confession out of two innocent laborers, who had been working near the couple's apartment. Esposito has the confessions overturned and lashes out at Romano in a justice building hall. Esposito threatens to file a complaint as Romano racially insults the construction workers.Back on the case, Esposito notices that pictures from Coloto's home town of Chivilcoy frequently show a man named Isidoro Gomez whose eyes never leave her. Although Irene is skeptical, Benjamin insists all of a young man's feeling for a woman is spoken there. Seeing that Gomez has disappeared, Esposito and Sandoval travel to Chivilcoy and sneak into Gomez's mother's house, where they find his letters to her. Sandoval steals them but they contain nothing useful and, when their supervising judge learns of the illegal action, the case is closed. Over an evening review of the manuscript, Benjamin reminds Irene that it was only one...