Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is struck with great ugliness like a curse. Secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine, he cannot refuse accompanying her everyday to the Coulteray mansion where she works. The atmosphere there is, at the very least, strange: the marquise, suffering from a mysterious illness, accuses her husband of being a vampire. But Bénédict has other preoccupations: six of his apprentices have disappeared without a trace. The police and neighborhood don't hesitate to imagine the worst... (translated into English from the back of the 2012 DVD, ina editions)