However the Octopus confronts them on the pier, and uses Marcello's stolen fleas to turn One against Miette. Upon seeing Miette alive the remorseful Marcello lets One leave with her. Miette leaves the diver's lair to find One and Marcello both drowning their sorrows in a bar. While Marcello is rescuing One, Miette falls into the harbor and sinks, seemingly drowned, but an amnesiac diver living beneath the harbor rescues her. He uses his trained fleas, which inject a poison capsule that causes mindless aggression, to turn the Cyclops guards against each other. Meanwhile, the Octopus orders circus performer Marcello ( Jean-Claude Dreyfus) to return One to them. He, together with one of the orphans, a little girl called Miette ( Judith Vittet), follows the Cyclops and infiltrates their headquarters, but they are captured and sentenced to execution. The theft is successful, but the safe is lost in the harbor when One is distracted by seeing Denree's kidnappers. Among the kidnapped is Denree (Joseph Lucien), the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One ( Ron Perlman).Īfter the carnival manager is stabbed by a mugger, One is hired by a criminal gang of orphans (run by a pair of conjoined twins called 'the Octopus') to help them steal a safe. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. At his lair on an abandoned oil rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin) he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. Krank ( Daniel Emilfork), a highly intelligent but malicious being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely.

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