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Isabella (Francesca Ungaro), one of many beautiful models employed at a
fashion house, is walking through the grounds that lead to the establishment one
night when she is attacked and violently killed by an assailant wearing a white
featureless mask. Police Inspector Sylvester (Thomas Reiner) is assigned to
investigate the murder and he interviews Max Marian (Mitchell), the manager who
co-manages the salon with his lover, the recently widowed Countess Cristina Como
(Bartok). Max attests that he can not provide any information whatsoever that
can assist the inspector, but as the investigation continues all of the fashion
house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug
addiction, begin to come to light. It is revealed that Isabella had kept a diary
detailing these vices, and suddenly almost every employee becomes nervous.
Nicole (Ariana Gorini) finds the diary, and she promises to provide it to the
police, but Peggy (Mary Arden) manages to steal it from her
purse during work. That night, Nicole drives to an antique store owned by her
paramour, Frank (Dante DiPaolo). He is not there, and while inside she suddenly
finds herself stalked by a black clad figure, who had apparently been waiting
for her. She gets to the front entrance door but is grabbed from behind by the
masked individual, who raises and slams a spiked glove into her face, killing
her instantly. The murderer searches the corpse and her purse for the diary.
When it becomes clear that she did not have it, the killer runs out of the
shop.
The murderer next visits Peggy’s apartment. The killer gains entrance simply
by knocking on the front door, and when Peggy opens it, the masked figure
abruptly walks inside. The assailant slaps and hits her repeatedly, and she
explains that she no longer has the diary and had in fact burned it in the
fireplace. When her attacker checks the fireplace to see if she told the truth,
she tries to pick up a telephone to call for help. Enraged, the murderer hits
her over and over again in the face until she is knocked unconscious. The
assailant then carries her away just as the police arrive.
Peggy is taken to another location and tied to a chair. The killer tortures
her, demanding to know where the diary is. The woman reaches up and knocks off
the mask. The shocked girl recognizes her assailant, who proceeds to kill her
brutally by slowly pressing her face against the red-hot surface of a burning
furnace.
Inspector Sylvester is convinced that the murderer is one of the men employed
at the fashion house, so he arrests all of those he believes might be related to
the deaths. However, while the suspects are in custody, Greta (Lea Krugher)
discovers Peggy’s corpse hidden in the trunk of her car, and is then attacked
and smothered to death by the killer. After discovering the bodies of the latest
victims, Sylvester releases all of the men.
Max visits Cristina and reminds her about how he had assisted in the murder
of her husband. Isabella had found out that Max had been involved in the crime,
and began blackmailing him. When she started asking for more and more money, Max
murdered her. It was only later that Max and Cristina realized she had been
keeping a diary that revealed everything. While attempting to retrieve the
diary, Max had also killed Nicole and Peggy. When Max and the other men from the
agency were placed under arrest, Cristina had murdered Greta to give Max an
alibi for the previous killings. Now, Max tells Cristina that he once again
needs her help and convinces her that after only one more death they will be
safe. That night, the voluptuous Tao-Li (Claude Dantes) is drowned in her
bathtub by the masked killer who, immediately after the murder, removes the mask
and is revealed as Cristina. She uses a razor blade to slice the corpse’s wrists
in order to make the death seem like a suicide. Cristina prepares to leave the
victim’s apartment when she is interrupted by a knocking sound on the front door
followed by the loud voice of a man identifying himself as the police. She
decides to escape out the second story window and then tries to climb down a
drainpipe, which falls under her weight, slamming her to the ground.
Later that night, Max searches through Cristina’s desk, looking for money and
documents. Suddenly, a bloody and bruised Cristina enters the room, shakily
holding a gun aimed directly at Max. Max had been the “policeman” knocking on
Tao-Li’s front door and, knowing how Cristina would attempt to escape, he had
deliberately broken the drainpipe in such a way that it would be guaranteed to
collapse. He attempts to persuade his lover and almost succeeds in getting her
to hand over the gun, but she abruptly changes her mind and shoots him to death.
The mortally wounded Cristina collapses next to Max's corpse.
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