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Thierry Richard [Marc Paquet] and Henri Dieudonné [Frédéric Pierre] are students at the University inMontreal, as well as good friends and roommates. Thierry is white andHenri is black, which leads them into many philosophical discussions aboutthe human races and some newly-discovered information that blackness isthe original color of the species and whiteness is a genetic mutation.Thierry only knows that, as a straight white guy, he'll never be able toget his writings published. He also knows that, when it comes to skincolor, he doesn't like redheads with their pale, translucent skin andvisible veins.

It's Thierry's birthday, and Henri has decided to make him a present ofa hooker. They hire two girls; Thierry gets the brunette while Henri takesMarquise [Jessica Malka], the redhead. Shortly after they pair off in separate rooms,Thierry becomes aware that Henri's moans have turned into screams. Thierryruns to Henri's room and finds his friend covered with blood from a knifewound to the neck. Marquise opens a window and jumps out into the street.Thierry helps Henri get to the hospital but, rather than admit they werein a whorehouse, they concoct a story about Henri being attacked in thestreet by a bunch of racist skinheads.

Several days later, Thierry notices a girl playing a flute in theMetro. Despite the fact that she is a redhead, he is so drawn to her thathe follows her until she disappears into an elevator. Haunted by her face,he misses his classes the next morning and goes over to the MusicDepartment looking for her. Instead, he finds an announcement with herpicture. She is Claire Lefrançois, and she is playing piano in a recitalthat is going on at that very moment. Thierry races over to thechamberhall and waits for the recital to end, then asks her out to dinnerwith him. At first, Claire is reluctant, but she finally gives in. Theyend up back at Thierry's apartment, where they have sex. Before Claireleaves, they agree to meet each other the next day at 2 pm.

Of course, Claire doesn't show, although Thierry skips class just towait for her. Later, he happens to run into her in the hallway, and sheacts very distant, telling him to forget about her. But they can't stayaway from each other and wind up making love again in Thierry's bed. AfterThierry tells Claire that he's in love with her and begs her to tell himwhy she is trying to give him the brush off, Claire reveals that she hascancer.

But there's more wrong with Claire than just cancer. For one thing,Claire doesn't like Blacks and is barely civil to Henri and his girlfriendSandra [Anna Beaupré Moulounda]. For another, she never eats. Henri invites Thierry and Claire tohave dinner with him and Sandra. Sandra spent the entire day cookingtraditional Haitian food, but Claire excused herself from the table. Andthen there's the condom. Henri is certain that he saw Claire in thebathroom licking the condom after having sex with Thierry. On top of allthat, Thierry is also beginning to look like death warmed over.

The next day, Thierry accompanies Claire to the hospital to begin herchemotherapy treatments. While there, Thierry is introduced to Claire'sfamily -- mother Diane [Lise Roy] and sisters Isabel [Julie LeBreton] and Marquise. Although Marquiseis now a brunette, Thierry immediately recognizes her as the hooker whotried to kill Henri. Still stunned, Thierry returns to his apartment to behit by another stunner -- Henri is in the process of moving out. Henrican't bear to see what's happening to Thierry and is tired of beingtreated like a stranger in his own house, so he's moving in with Sandra.Thierry finally tells Henri about Claire's cancer, and Henri mellows.

Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Dr Paul-Émile Gagnon [Marcel Sabourin] is also stunned byClaire's bloodwork. Her adrenalin is sky high, TSH is near zero, herhormones are nonresponsive, and Dr Gagnon exclaims, "Impossible! She'd behaving a heart attack right now." Claire's family is aghast at herappearance (bald), and Thierry overhears them arguing with Claire over herchoice of treatment. "I want to live a normal life with a normal guy,"Claire maintains, but her mother vows that she will stop this treatmenteven against Claire's will.

As Thierry leaves the hospital, he runs into Marquise, who throws himup against a fence, sticks her hand in his pants, and warns him to stayaway from her sister and to keep Henri away, too, or she'll f**k Henri sohard that he'll never recover and eat Thierry for dinner. When Thierrytells Henri about Marquise, Henri calls his Haitian aunt Marie-PierreJanvier [Joujou Turenne] for help. She drives them over to Claire's apartment. Thierry hasnever been to Claire's place and doesn't have a key, so Henri uses acrowbar to break the lock. Except for a few pieces of bare furniture, theyfind Claire's apartment empty -- no clothes in the drawers, no cosmeticsin the bathroom, no piano, nothing to show that anyone lives there.Suddenly, Marie-Pierre gets a feeling and forces them all to leave theapartment and get in the car. The snowstorm has become blinding and thetires have been deflated, but Marie-Pierre is anxious to get out of there.As they drive away, the car strikes Marquise. Thierry gets out of the carto tend to her body, but it is not there.

Thierry rushes over to the hospital only to find that Claire haschecked out. He gets the nurse to give him Diane's telephone number, butthe phone has been disconnected. Meanwhile, Henri is googling. He links toSuccubes.net and reads about them. When Thierry comes home, Henri attemptsto enlist his help tracking down Marquise, but Thierry won't hear a wordof it. Scared for his life, Henri buys a gun and goes over to Dr Gagnon'shouse, only to find the front door open, no one at home, and the bathtubsplattered with blood, so Henri enlists Marie-Pierre's help again. Theystop at Henri's apartment to pick up Thierry but find, instead, Marquiseand Diane. As Diane watches, Marquise stabs Henri.

Meanwhile, Thierry has been met after class Claire's sister Isabel.Isabel informs him that Claire isn't well and takes him to their housewhere Claire is languishing in bed. Thierry rushes to Claire, intent ontaking her back to the hospital, when Isabel suddenly lifts him off hisfeet and throws him across the room. Claire doesn't need pills, Isabelexplains. She shows Thierry some packages in the freezer and explains thatthe cuts of meat are Dr Gagnon and that Claire is going to have to eatthem if she is going to recover. Isabel drives Claire and Thierry back toThierry's apartment while explaining that, insofar as they know, they aregenetic mutations from humans, just as Whites are mutations from Blacks.Yes, they feed on humans, and the best feeding is on Blacks because theyare more genetically pure. They need human males to reproduce, and theycan only bear daughters. As soon as they can bear sons, however, they willno longer need humanity...they will BE humanity.

When they arrive at Thierry's apartment, they are surprised to seeDiane's car parked out front. Inside, they find Diane just leaving,Marie-Pierre dead in the kitchen, and Marquise is in the bathtub feastingon Henri. Isabel and Marquise begin to argue about Marguise'sindiscretions. Unable to stand it anymore, Claire takes Henri's gun andshoots Marquise in the head.

Epilogue: Thierry has been expelled from the university, at least for thesummer but plans to return in September. Claire is pregnant. Thierry hasinstalled an indwelling catheter in his arm so that he can draw out asyringeful of his blood, squirt it into a can of Cherry Cola, and feed itto Claire whenever she needs it. Diane and Isabel wait in the hospitalhallway while Thierry and Claire see the results of the ultrasound. Thedoctor asks if they would like to know the sex of their baby. "Let's keepit a surprise," says Thierry. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]