The classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder, and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched by the Opera's "phantom"—a mysterious masked figure who terrorizes the Opera's management and players. With the Phantom's help, Christine rises to become the Opera's star performer—but when the Phantom demands her heart in return, Christine is torn between gratitude and pity for her strange benefactor, and love for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul.