Milly Hughes
Inexplicablemente, los habitantes de un apacible pueblo pierden el conocimiento durante unas horas. Poco después se produce otro extraño e inquietante fenómeno que parece estar relacionado con aquel desmayo: muchas mujeres del pueblo descubren que están encintas. Agentes del gobierno supervisan estos embarazos para investigar si existe o no tal relación. Cuando las madres dan a luz, resulta que curiosamente todos los recién nacidos son albinos y tienen unos intensos ojos azules, además de una increíble inteligencia; pero a medida que crecen muestran una conducta tan sobrenatural como inhumana.
Emmanuele
Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house, with her four children. The eldest one, Emmy, is a beautiful and pure young girl of seventeen, who tentatively believes she has a calling to the religious life. The second child, Bertrand, aged fifteen, has been sent to England for an exchange holiday with a young English boy, Harry Fanning, and when the play opens, the French children are excitedly awaiting his arrival. Also living with the family is a French governess, and a tutor, Blaise Lebel. Lebel has a sombre power over the family, and it is the ‘intrusion’ of Harry that sets in motion in him a wave of resentment and fear.
