On the night of October 5, 1994, 23 people are found dead after a fire in a remote farmhouse. A hundred kilometers away, 25 bodies are found at the same time. The profile of the victims leads the investigators to an apocalyptic cult.
A year after the events, the sect leaders may be dead, yet another 16 sect members are found dead in the Vercors Mountains. How did these people, many of whom were educated and influential, come to meet such a horrific end?
The Order of the Solar Temple is growing: it has hundreds of followers, holds conferences and owns real estate, and it also wants to play a bigger role on the international stage. But in Canada and Martinique, the sect begins to crumble.
The force of the indoctrination led to the death of 74 people. The phenomenon of 'mind control' proves difficult to prove in court, but the families of the victims refuse to accept that their loved ones died of their own free will.