A house on a French hillside. Two couples: the wife of a doctor presumed killed on the
battlefields of the First World War and a mysterious German lion tamer hiding his circus
animals from requisition and Parisian Franck and his wife Lise who has booked them into the
isolated gite to escape twenty-first century life. When a hungry wolfdog emerges from the
forest Franck begins to discover dark secrets about the house and himself.