sentences:  His work included a "phantasmagoric" set for the climactic scene of the film which featured a masked ball.Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse.Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.