THE IRON ROSE

A young woman and man meet at a wedding reception and arrange a date. They meet at a railway station and go for a picnic and bike ride. While cycling, they see the entrance of a lonely cemetery and decide to go inside.

Once inside the huge cemetery, the woman becomes anxious. The man calms her and persuades her to enter a crypt with him. A strange man watches the couple. The man and the woman make love in the crypt. A clown places some flowers on a nearby grave and leaves. An old woman closes the cemetery gates.

When the couple finally exit the crypt, night has fallen and they cannot find their way out. They begin to panic. They discover a small building; inside are several child-sized coffins holding small skeletons. The woman becomes moody and exhibits bizarre behavior and personality changes. She locks her lover in the crypt and he suffocates. Dawn finds the woman dancing around the cemetery, and later entering the crypt herself. The old woman reopens the cemetery gates. Finding the crypt closed, she puts flowers on top of it.

The woman locks her lover in the crypt, where he suffocates. At dawn, she dances in the cemetery and enters the crypt herself, as the old woman places flowers on the crypt.

The ending cements the film's meditation on isolation, madness, and surrender to the surreal. The couple's journey from playful curiosity to fatal estrangement reflects the cemetery's role as both a literal and psychological labyrinth. By morning, the woman's actions blur the line between love, death, and the macabre poetry that defines Rollin's vision.