High school student Alice convinces her boyfriend and lover Luc to murder their classmate Saïd, with whom she was having an affair, and who, she claims, raped her.

When they dispose of his body in the woods late one night, the couple get lost on their way back to their car and are taken in by a mysterious old hermit.

[2] Matters take a bizarre turn when the stranger locks the young lovers in his cellar with the dead body of Saïd and reveals that he plans to eat them.

[4] Neil Smith of BBC called the film "unsettling, subversive thriller that combines sadism, cannibalism, and homoeroticism to increasingly delirious effect".

[6] Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times had criticized the film, writing that "it never develops a life of its own" because of "[its] amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories".