Ordeal

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.

A young woman instantly falls in love with her new upstairs neighbor who has a nasty habit of moving bodies in bags in the middle of the night down the stairwell. From time to time, he asks his neighbor for a hand. Or a knife. Or to keep the body for a few days. So much so that she ends up falling as much in love with the last corpse he left on her arms.