In the City of Love, a renowned surgeon, Dr. Gogol, becomes obsessed with a stage actress, Yvonne Orlac, only to discover she's married to a concert pianist, Stephen. When Stephen's hands are severely injured in a train accident, Yvonne turns to Dr. Gogol for help, and he resorts to a drastic measure: grafting the hands of a murdered man, Rollo, onto Stephen's. The surgery succeeds, but the consequences are devastating.
Mad Love
A deranged French surgeon's fixation on a British actress prompts him to secretly transplant her concert pianist husband's damaged hands with those of a skilled knife-thrower who was executed by guillotine, leading to a sinister and unexpected outcome.