Late on the winter night of 27 June 1985, South Africa’s Security Forces set up a roadblock in the eastern Cape Province to abduct four anti-Apartheid activists, including Matthew Goniwe, their leader, a popular teacher from the small town of Cradock. They had been secretly targeted for political assassination and were murdered them in cold blood. To cover their tracks, the Security Forces mutilated and set fire to the bodies. The burnt remains of “the Cradock Four", as they came to be known, were later found near the Port Elizabeth suburb of Bluewater Bay. The murders became one of Apartheid’s murkiest and most controversial episodes.
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.