- A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.
- Condemned to see only when the night falls, the abandoned blind sisters with the untraceable past, Louise and Henriette, share a horrible secret. Their days are black, their nights are blue, and their insatiable thirst for warm, bright-red blood compels the orphaned predators to roam the ill-lit streets of Paris in search of unsuspecting victims to sustain their unholy existence on Earth. However, danger lurks everywhere, and the city's sad, memory-laden cemeteries can only provide temporary refuge. Indeed, blood begets blood. Is there an end to the blood-stained sisters' tyranny?—Nick Riganas
- Henriette [Issabelle Teboul] and Louise [Alexandra Pic] are blind orphans. They live at the Glycines Orphanage where they are among Sister Martha's [Natalie Perrey] favorites. She calls them her "angels", but angels they are not. In fact, they're vampires. They are blinded by daylight, but when the sun goes down, they see perfectly, albeit in blue [shot through blue filters]. During the night, while everyone sleeps, they slip out of the orphanage and go to their "true home" --the cemetery-- looking for blood. At times, they sit amongst the graves and talk about their travels, the interesting creatures they have met (like the she-wolf and the ghoul), their previous lives, and where they might have come from. They have reincarnated so many times that the memories are dim. They like to think of themselves as blood-drinking goddesses for whom the Aztecs performed human sacrifices.
When Sister Martha's dream -- that Henriette and Louise would be adopted by the famous opthalmologist, Dr Dennery [Bernard Charnacé] -- comes true, they go to live with their new father in his big house in Paris. Everyone thinks the blind girls are so sweet and pure, but when the night comes and their vision returns, they continue to slip out to find victims and play in the little cemetery near their house. Then one afternoon, Dr Dennery announces that he must attend a conference and will be gone overnight. He makes them promise that they won't leave the house, but as soon as he is gone, they head for the Metro and go to visit a BIG cemetery [looks like Montmartre cemetery to me]. When evening comes on and their sight returns, they hop and skip around. Unfortunately, they are seen by an elderly couple who had seen them earlier as they made their way around with canes. "They're creatures from hell!" exclaims the woman, and the man runs after them with a stick but they elude him. A bit later, the man sees them drinking blood from a young girl's neck and chases them again. They hide in a crypt where they meet a bat woman who gives them refuge for the night in her own coffin.
The next morning, Henriette and Louise return home. On the way, they feel thirsty so they slake their thirst on each other. Then they stop at a liquor store to buy some brandy to clean their necks. By the time they get home, they're both roaring drunk, so drunk they don't make it into the house before the doctor returns. After parking his car, he finds the empty liquor bottle, sees movement in the bushes, and fires off a gunshot, hitting Louise. While the doctor searches the grounds, Henriette gets Louise upstairs and under the bedcovers. After the doctor has checked on them and gone to bed himself, Henriette tells Louise a story about Aztec sacrifices while Louise drinks some of Henriette's blood to strengthen her. The girls begin to fear that the doctor will kill them if he finds out the truth. So, they plot to kill him first, but they can't come up with a good plan. Just as they are reading a book about crimes, the doctor walks in. They make up a story about how their vision has started to return and how they were waiting to tell him about it on his birthday next weekend. He wants to examine their eyes, but first he's going to make some breakfast. While they eat, Henriette goes to the cupboard, takes out a knife, and stabs the doctor in the back. When he is dead, they gather their things, set the house on fire, and leave.
But where to go? Back to the orphanage, of course. They slip into their old room and put on nightclothes. After Sister Martha has made her rounds, they enter the room of poor, sick Virginia. They decide not to drink the blood of a sick girl and, instead, sneak outside to join two other girls who have snuck out to smoke a cigarette. When Sister Martha finds the canes of her two "angels" in their old bedroom and smells cigarettes, she goes to investigate and finds Henriette and Louise, their mouths all bloodied, and the two other orphans with bites on their necks.
Henriette and Louise run from the orphanage and hide in a barn. When Nicole comes to milk the cows, they befriend her, tell her who they really are, and bemoan the fact that people will be after them. They must return to their cemetery. Nicole says that she knows a shortcut and will guide them there as it is almost daylight. Unfortunately, they are seen by the old man and woman from the big cemetery. The old man recognizes them, grabs his gun, and shoots Henriette. Henriette is dying. She asks Louise to find a hole to hide in. They wade out into a marsh. Henriette slips under the water first, followed by Louise.
[Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
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