France, 16 September 1890. Having patented a sophisticated device for capturing and projecting moving images on a screen, innovative French artist
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince disappears under mysterious circumstances. Then, on 13 February 1895,
Auguste Lumière and his brother,
Louis Lumière, patented their version of Louis' invention, the original Cinématographe. A few centuries later, in modern-day Rome, Italian film director and screenwriter
Luigi Cozzi encounters a peculiar visitor in
Dario Argento' iconic horror museum, Profondo Rosso. The stranger reveals a deadly conspiracy threatening our world. As powerful dark forces from unfathomable parallel universes endanger humankind, the answers Luigi seeks lie hidden in the inimitable French illusionist
Georges Méliès' sci-fi extravaganza,
A Trip to the Moon (1902). But if alternate realities exist, what happens if one of them crumbles into pieces?
—Nick Riganas