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At an exclusive girls' school outside Paris in 1921, run by the eccentric Madame de Challens, perversion, morphine addiction and madness are on the curriculum. A pupil, Lucienne, has gone missing just as Solange, the school's dance teacher — newly released from a psychiatric clinic where she was treated for drug addiction and silk-stealing kleptomania — returns. When Lucienne reappears, Solange becomes fascinated with her and takes her to an abandoned property on an island in the Seine, while the school's sinister chaplain, Father Pioch, resolves to save the girls with an exorcism. Tragic events ensue.