Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine
Three siblings, a race against time among the streets of Paris, coded messages, ancient daguerreotypes, centuries-old secret circles and a disturbing mystery: can photographic film preserve a soul?
France, 1971. It’s the 13th of October when a postman rings the Sélavy family’s door, causing all hell to break loose: the delivery is for Louis, René’s twin, who died in an accident two years earlier. Since then, no one has been able to say his name. But when the package reveals the missing piece of the creepy darkroom locked away in the garage and their parents suddenly disappear, siblings Yves, André and René find themselves with many questions: who is the mysterious Cassandra Apollinaire who sent the parcel? What has happened to their parents? But above all: is it really possible to bring the dead back to life? Because Louis is back. And in René’s body.
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