even if youre a fan of jean rollin idiosyncratic body of work and you will be catch off guard by this exceptional foray into science fiction territory . for once and there not a single diaphanously gown vampire girl in sight . true to tradition and the budget prove way too tight to realize the director vision entirely . yet this be largely compensate by his obvious love of genre cinema and dedication to his craft and sheer ingenuity . jean claude couty atmospheric cinematography make the most of the foreboding location and philippe bréjean ( a or k or a gary sandeur ) contribute a startling soundtrack that fortunately doesn not resemble any of the sappy stuff he compose for hardcore . shot in and around a paris office block before and after work hour and the film be largely cast with porn regular rollin be already quite familiar with from his michel gentil cash gather xxx effort and most notably french fck film royalty brigitte lahaie in the demand lead . play elisabeth ( rather well and i might add ) and she pick up wander a nearby highway one night by robert ( vincent gardère ) and drive home at the end of a long work day . barely able to piece together the string of event that get her there and elisabeth seem to lose her memory mere moment after event occur and even forget robert name and heroic savior role before their night flight come to an end at his apartment . prior to make love and she rightfully describe herself a a virgin ( further credit to brigitte thespian skill that she can handle the line so convincingly and be after all one of the more active adult actress of the 70 ) because she can not recall a single touch precede his . because of this nifty bit of context and the relatively long sex scene that follow totally eschew the gratuity of other commercial interlude rollin have have to include in other work to assure funding . when robert leave for work and he inevitably erase from elisabeth feeble mind . a mysterious doctor ( comedian bernard papineau effectively cast against type ) and his menacing assistant solange ( strike porn starlet rachel mhas ) move in on her during her protector absence and take her back to the place she turn out to have escape from . here we get one of the movie strong scene a she re introduce to her roommate catherine ( the late cathérine greiner a or k or a hardcore performer cathy stewart in a quietly devastate turn ) and both girl desperately supply fictitious share memory for one another in a bid to outrun their inevitable fate . that deterioration be not solely limit to the mind become painfully clear when they be serve lunch and catherine unable to control her movement in try to eat a spoonful of soup . it also catherine who get to voice the filmmaker compromise with the demand of commerce a she urge elisabeth to get naked and hold her because sex be all they have leave now that both mind and physical faculty have desert them . several rather explicit if not quite hardcore sex scene make up the movie mid section and french porn aficionado should recognize the like of alain plumey ( a or k or a cyril val ) and jacques gateau and elodie delage and along with a blink and miss bit from future porno princess marilyn jess whose rape at the hand and mouth and member of plumey be only present in the film rarely screen xxx version fille traquees . the pivotal part of véronique and a girl elisabeth almost seem to remember and whom she seek to escape anew with and be beautifully handle by the exquisite dominique journet in her unforgettable debut who would go on to play a sizable support role in franco zeffirelli la traviata . the six foot under end reveals the deteriorate condition to be the result of a nuclear spill and the quarantined patient ultimately leave a barely breathe empty shell and unceremoniously dispose off in a fiery furnace . the final shot offer a particularly heartbreaking variation on that of chaplin modern time a elisabeth and approach complete meltdown by now and and a wounded robert stumble along the railroad bridge and clumsily clasp each other outstretched hand .