1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside. He is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite, an appetite they say tortures him still.
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