Преуспевающий художник-анималист, лауреат Государственной премии, в подвале старого дома обнаруживает архив безвестного режиссера-документалиста, трагически погибшего во время съемок археологической экспедиции в африканской пустыне, который позволяет выдвинуть новую гипотезу о причинах перехода предков человека к передвижению на задних конечностях. Параллельно развитию основного сюжета (с художником) идет линия подготовки группы людей гориллоподобной внешности к ограблению банка.
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The year is 1817. Minon, a five-year-old girl, leaves her aunt Therese of Brunswick, who has raised her like a mother since her birth, to go and live with her parents, the Count and Countess von Stakelberg. One day, Gabrielle, her housekeeper, who is no longer in her right mind, reveals that her real father is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Twenty years later, still intrigued by this confession, Minon decides to unravel the mystery of her origins. She returns to the place of her early childhood, hoping to find the truth with her aunt, who was for years the faithful friend of the great composer.
The necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experiment
A biologist, obsessed with the idea of writing a treatise on a new kind of mouse, becomes witness to a number of bizarre and horrific events, from his son's suicide, to the S&M engaged in by respectable middle-aged men, to his own family's psychic morbidity.
