A new thriller about Marten Servas, a major in the Toulouse police, is packed with truly terrifying events—and not all the main characters will survive. Those eyes watching you from the night... In the mountains, far from the world, lives the director of cult horror films, Morbius Delacroix. He has a reputation as a misanthrope and a little mad. But it doesn’t bother him. He is a genius. A wicked genius...
His last film, "Orpheus, or the Spiral of Evil," never made it to theaters. Legends swirl around this film—many call it "cursed"...
At the same time, in a ward of a Toulouse psychiatric hospital, a master of film special effects is found brutally murdered. And shortly after, they discover the body of a sound technician. Both had worked with Delacroix on "Orpheus." What is this—coincidence? Or is it really a curse? Or...
These questions must be answered by Major Marten Servas and his team. But the investigation leads the detectives into such darkness and horror that they have to answer a different question instead: will they manage to stay alive? ________________________________________________
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