Synopsis for
Les yeux sans visage (1960) Plus avec IMDbPro »

Eyes Without a Face begins at night as a young woman eases her car down a back road near a river. She stops and manages to pull out of the car a womans body wrapped I an overcoat and dumps it into the river. We are then introduced to a Medical Professor giving a lecture before a rapt group of admirers. The woman is Louise (Alida Valli) and her father Prof. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur) has been attempting to perfect a number of surgical procedures, one of which it turns out is grafting skin from one animal to another. He experiments with dogs and has many mongrels penned up on his estate that he uses as subjects. When detectives bring the professor to identify the dead woman that Louise has dropped into the river he says that it is the body of his lost daughter Christiane (Edith Scob). Meanwhile Louise drives around the French city looking for young women to spark up a friendship with. At the secluded estate of the professor the other daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) remains hidden from view, and it turns out her face hidden with a mask to hide her features that have been damaged in a car accident. It seems that she and Louise were both injured and the professor has managed a plastic surgery procedure with Louise that has been successful with only a minor little scar at the base of her neck, a scar that Louise hides with a string of pearls. With Christiane, however the plastic surgery graft has not been successful and so the professor and Louise kidnap young women to attempt to transpose their beauty onto young Christiane. Things begin to go wrong when Christiane reaches out to an ex beau and the insular world of this dysfunctional family collapses.