Yönetmen : Mathieu Kassovitz Oyuncular : Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Philippe Nahon, Nadia Fares, Dominique Sanda Senaryo : Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean-Christophe Grangé Yapımcı : Alain Goldman, Catherine Morisse

Görevini yaparken uyguladığı sertlikten dolayı bir taşra görevine sürülen tecrübeli polis müfettiği Niemans ile genç yardımcısının korkunç şekilde işlenmiş seri cinayetleri çözme çabası olayların giderek karmaşıklaşmasıyla içinden çıkılmaz bir hal alır. Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Rémy Caillois, whose corps was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly covered in bruises and bleeding wounds, the result of some five hours of bestial torture including quasi-surgical amputation of hands cauterized to prevent bleeding to death- and eyes. Guernon is a closed society of virtually incestuous scientists, de facto succeeding to their parents' posts; the eye-doctor, formerly on the staff, says hereditary genetic diseases are the price of such elitism, but in recent years spread to the simple farming families. Inspector Max Kerkerian examines two crimes in the town: a school break-in with theft of old photos and archive papers as well as a graveyard desecration of Judith Herault, the daughter of local nun Andrée, who lives in a dark cell since 15.