Hugo is a brilliant mid-Victorian scientist| loved and respected by his family and friends| admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with
a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects? Hugo brings to a family boating party his
newest invention-a motion picture camera. The party quickly turns into a disaster as he captures on film the tragic drowning of his wife and son. When the film is
replayed later| the same ghostlike presence appears. It flies towards his son| and vanishes inside his dying body. Has Hugo discovered The Asphyx| the spirit of the
dead described in Greek mythology? A spirit which lives in constant agony| not finding rest until it takes possession of a human body? Could the spirit| if captured|
become the key to immortality? Hugo is compelled to find the answers. It is a ghoulish search| with eternally haunting results.