Syndrome E

Beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle's old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare-and violent-film from the 1950s. Embedded in the film are subliminal images so heinous that Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of it-especially when nearly everyone who comes into contact with the film turns up dead. Enlisting the help of Inspector Franck Sharko, a brooding analyst for the Paris police, Lucie begins to strip away the layers of what is perhaps the most disturbing and powerful film ever made. Soon Sharko and Lucie are mired in an all-encompassing darkness.