Description

An aristocratic family who live in the french countryside have seen better days. An attempt is taken by the Marquis Pierre de l’Esperance (Guy Tréjan) to revitalize things when an American heir, and friend of his, has died. Pierre then proposes that his shy, and perhaps slightly-demented, son, Mathurin (Pierre Benedetti) should marry the American’s daughter. This is against the wishes of Pierre’s uncle (Marcel Dalio) fearing that terrible things will happen. But after enough persuasion (Including some blackmail), the marriage has been set. Bride-to-be, Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) soon arrives and is taken by the curious atmosphere of the family’s chateaux as well as some puzzling artwork of bestiality. But what most grabs her attention is the corset of the family’s grandmother from the 18th century. A scripture beside features the drawing of a beast with a an ennormous penis and written nearby is “I met and fought him”. The uncle gleefully dismisses this as legend. But in actuality, something very peculiar and forbidden has happened to the bloodline of the l’Esperance family.