Three lifelong friends,
Alex, Bob and Cal, meet for a drink. Alex and Cal, distress all
over their faces, have a burning issue to discuss among the three
confidantes. Unbeknownst to Bob until now, Alex cheated — and
his wife knows it. Nan, distraught, having almost found
him in flagrante, unceremoniously threw him out of
the house — Alex on his knees begging for her forgiveness as
she pushes him to the door. Who can blame her, though? Nan's a
true victim — we needn't consider whether some flaw in
their marriage helped lead to Alex's conduct. It's simply
not relevant here.
Alex overtly presents
himself to his two friends as inconsolably broken, desperate to get
back home to his wife and young children. Despite the several
glasses of wine with his two friends, though, he expresses no
"guilt." Thus, even though he drank wine
that has often, in the past, led to greater truth and candor on his
part, Alex facially seems not to suffer from any guilt at
