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Yoko Ogawa's cult novel serves as the inspiration for director Diane Bertrand's haunting erotic drama starring Olga Kurylenko. Iris (Kurylenko) is looking for employment when she goes to work for an eccentric scientist who specializes in preserving people's personal mementos. Later, as Iris lovingly sets about preserving such keepsakes as animal bones and inanimate objects, an attraction begins to develop between her and the scientist and the pair enter into an ominous but occasionally playful love affair.