...My grandfather""s work was doo-doo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation oflife!To emphasize his point, Frankenstein had grabbed a scalpel instrument from his tray and emphatically jabbed it downwards - directly into his right thigh.The macabre ale, that became increasingly unpleasant to watch, was about the mental deterioration into schizophrenia of beautiful, timid, vulnerable and paranoid young 18 year-old blonde manicurist Carol Ledoux (21 year-old Catherine Deneuve) from Belgium, who lived in a claustrophic London apartment with her older sister.He also gave her two vials of the antidote - one for Gordon personally, and one for "mass production.Plot SynopsisThe film opened with a narrator""s voice-over about he problem of no-vacancies in the nation""s capital, prefaced by some views of the city""s major landmarks.His only source of escape and pleasure, other than nostalgia for the past, was secretively watching his neighbor Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon, director Malle""s girlfriend at the time of filming) - a younger, cynical clam-bar waitress who ritualistically performed a sexy lemon-wash of herself at her window within his apartment""s view.