Marcel
Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling), una escritora británica autora de libros de misterio y novelas policiacas, viaja de Londres al sur de Francia, para pasar unos días en casa de su editor (Charles Dance), con la intención de descansar y encontrar inspiración para su nueva novela. Allí conoce a la hija adolescente de su anfitrión, la atractiva y poco convencional Julie (Ludivine Sagnier).
André
The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge.
Le recteur
Fascinated by the idea of being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?
Hugo-Paul de Weydroos, forger who manages to mystify the most renowned experts, is an attractive man, not without talent but paranoid and megalomaniac. He lived a childhood in the Paris of the 1920s, upset by his love of drawing and painting thwarted by an abusive mother. Delivered to his own fantasies, the hero indulges in the most disordered introspection and will end up consuming himself to become the reincarnation of the one he is trying to copy: Hans Pauli Weyergans, painter of the 18th century.
