My Wife Couldn’t Bear My Touch, But Slept With Another

Apollo Granger's wife, Kaia Velasquez, comes home late one night, her stockings torn and her skirt crooked, her body marked. She locks herself in the bathroom and scrubs her skin raw. The police refuse to open a case; the office cameras were under maintenance, and no evidence remains. Apollo beats her boss and earns seven days of administrative detention. For two months afterward, Kaia will not let him touch her.

At last Apollo files for divorce in front of her relatives. Kaia stares in disbelief, asking whether she is being divorced because she was raped. He answers flatly that she is. Her parents and the gathered relatives turn on him, calling him heartless and blaming him for not picking her up that night, while Kaia pleads that they move forward. Apollo refuses to back down, and his father-in-law warns him that as an orphan he has nothing without this marriage.

Alone, Apollo calls his cousin, a lawyer, about an investigation and a possible court hearing. The next evening he returns to a candlelit dinner and Kaia in a revealing nightgown, ready to talk.