Les Papillons Noirs plot
Forty-year-old gloomy novelist Adrien, known as 'Moody' for his state of mind, has had only one success with a novel. After this he had continuous 'writer's block'; so he has very little inspiration for his second book. He agrees to become a ghost writer, writing a memoir for a terminally ill, dying man who tells him all about his life. In this way Adrien becomes part of his bloody past.