Morando Ebert is a film critic who died before his marriage took place, apparently after entering an abandoned cinema. After that he was never heard of again. But he hasn't disappeared: he has remained "imprisoned" in the film theatre, where he met two actors, Alida Bettini and Walter Mastrogiacomo (who went missing years before). They had starred in "Souls in Torment," the last film to have been shown in the cinema, and were trapped by a fire that had broken out during the premiere screening.