Jacques de la Bossiere lives with his beautiful wife Fanny in a castle that once belonged to his disappeared brother Henri, manages his brother's factory and feels great. However, the cloudless existence of the secular couple suddenly begins to be poisoned by otherworldly phenomena - talkative spirits at seances, suspicious revelations from Henri’s beloved, a ghost in chains... Isn’t there an ominous secret hidden behind all this? The solution is in the elegant and ironic, repeatedly filmed thriller by the French detective master Gaston Leroux.