Guilt and Ginataan

This year, the Shady Palms Corn Festival is cosponsored with the neighboring town of Shelbyville, and Mayor Judy Reyes brings her wife. Filipino restaurateur Lila Macapagal and her friends Adeena and Elena, co-owners of the Brew-ha Cafe, have a booth at the festival. When Reyes’s wife, Yvonne, gets a little confrontational with Adeena, the young woman handles it well. The incident is forgotten at the end of the day when Lila and her friends decide to compete in the corn maze to see who can find the end first. Lila is lost in the maze when she hears a scream; soon she and a security guard locate the source of a second scream. Yvonne is dead, stabbed to death, and Adeena is passed out with the bloody knife in her hand. With Adeena at the top of the suspect list, Lila rallies her friends and relatives to investigate. She usually relies on conversations and the community to help, but this time, for some reason, Elena is standing in her way.