 Odile Deray (Lauby) is the publicist for the slasher movie "Red is Dead", which features a serial killer whose weapons of choice are the hammer and sickle.She is invited to the Cannes film festival, where she is faced with the unanimous opinion that the movie is extremely bad.However, "Red is Dead" soon attracts the public attention when its projectionist is murdered by what seems to be a copycat of the movie's killer.