Eric (played by Colin Redgrave) is a novelist with an exceptionally powerful imagination. While exploring a dilapidated mansion in a French countryside and searching for a location for his story, he met a girl dressed in clothes from another era. Returning to the scene, he met a modern woman who said he might have encountered a ghost. He was captivated by the seemingly impossible situation. http://www.dvdparadoxe.com/serail.html