Fish Eye (Ojo de pez)

A cynical and stubborn homicide inspector takes on a powerful multinational mining company when the deaths of two Greenpeace activists uncover a network of corruption, murder, and cover-ups that threatens to destroy everything… including his own life.

Lucas Daireh, a rookie homicide inspector who seems overwhelmed by everything, cuts short his vacation on the Murcian coast to investigate the mysterious death of a young activist found in a small fishing village in Cartagena. The case, which Civil Guard commander Amancio Goyeneche attempts to close as an overdose, soon reveals something far darker: the victim was a Greenpeace activist confronting the all-powerful mining company Peñarroja, responsible for decades of toxic dumping that have devastated the Bay of Portmán. The environmentalists, aboard the sailboat Sirius, had arrived in Portmán to try to stop the discharges.

The clues lead the inspector to the ostentatious Casa Anglesola, the company’s headquarters, where he faces executive Eliseo Alcaraz, a man with influence over both the police and the judiciary. There, amid luxury and evasiveness, the inspector finds a compromising photograph that he decides to keep secret. The investigation is shaken when another activist and ally, Julianne Osmann, is found dead after being thrown from the chimney of a smelting plant. Three children, witnesses to the events, describe a tall, elegant man striking her before fleeing through a metal tunnel toward the factory.

Aristóteles, a friend of Julianne, reveals that she had been collecting gas samples and that, on board the Sirius, they were hiding belongings of the first victim. Among them are photographs showing armed men, including two twins: Commissioner Sarabia—Lucas’s superior—and his brother George, a mobster from Marseille. Both, working for the mining company’s corporate power, turn out to be the killers, and Commander Goyeneche appears to have been aware of all their movements. In fact, he seems to be another member of the criminal network that murdered the activist.

At the Festival del Cante de las Minas, the inspector overhears, from hiding, the Sarabia brothers confessing to Eliseo the murders of Florence and Julianne. Outside, Commander Goyeneche intercepts him and drops a bombshell: he has spent three years undercover for Interpol in a high-level operation against Peñarroja’s criminal network, a mining and financial empire that does not hesitate to eliminate witnesses and has its claws embedded within law enforcement itself.

That same night, tensions explode. Goyeneche leads a swift raid: gunfire, shouts, and the Sarabia brothers are taken down within seconds. But for the inspector, it is not enough. Fever burning in his temples and rage coursing through him, he decides to deliver justice his own way. Days later, he kidnaps Eliseo, drags him to an abandoned mine, and throws him into a dark shaft, bringing to a close a game in which revenge and justice have become one and the same.

RELEVANT INFORMATION: Antonio J. Ruiz Munuera is a secondary school teacher and a member of the Order of the Meteorite, a literary group of writers from the Molina de Segura City Council.

Fish Eye is a crime thriller with a strong dimension of social denunciation, where criminal investigation intertwines with a real backdrop of political corruption, environmental disasters, and conspiracies. In the vein of contemporary thrillers based on real events such as Dark Waters or Mar de plástico.

AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Film.

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.