Werewolves have been known by various names - shapeshifters, succubi, demons...and loup garoux. An outgrouth of mythology as old as civilization itself, tales of werewolves and shapeshifters have cropped up around dissapearances, murders, violence and death throughout history. "They express fear of the unknown," notes director Katja von Garnier, "but more than that, they express fear of the unknown within the known - the hidden predator living undetected amongst humanity, the hidden animal within the man.""I think that everybody is fascinated by them," says cast-member Bryan Dick. "I don't think there's a person who has not watched a werewolf film or been interested in the fantasy of shapeshifters and that kind of moonlight world. It's very appealing and it's also very sexy."
The story of "Blood and Chocolate" explores the ideea through a star-crossed love story. "It really is about these people just trying to fit in and survive in the modern civilized world", says Agnes Bruckner. "Hopefully, we haven't done an injustice to the myths as they stand, we've just reinvented them and given them a new twist."
Ten years ago, in the remote mountains of Colorado, a young girl watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. She survived by running into the woods, and changing into something the hunters could never find...a wolf.
Living in relative safety in Bucharest, Vivian spends her days working at a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city's underground clubs, fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe and his gang of delinquents he calls "The Five".
Aiden Galvin is an artist researching Bucharest's ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel bassed on the mythology of the loup garoux - shapeshifters whose power to change into the forms of both human and wolf was once considered holy among men. During a chance encounter in an abandoned church celebrating the loup garoux, Aiden comes face to face with the real thing...Vivian. Vivian is among the last of her kind, leading a tenous existance under the protection and control of Gabriel, the powerful and enigmatic leader of one of the last packs of loup garoux on earth. To keep their kind from being hunted to extinction, Gabriel holds them to strict laws. One is that he must take a new bride every seven years, and Vivian has been prophesied to be his next. The other is that the pack must hunt as one or not at all. It is the very key to their survival. On the night of the full moon, the gather as one in the woods outside the city. Though the wolves are outnumbered by man, on the night of the hunt, they can e who they truly are - hunting a single chosen human as a pack. If their prey reaches the other side of the river, he will be allowed to live...but no human has ever reached the river.
Though Vivian has sworn never to kill, she is as much animal as she is human, and her love for Aiden threatens to cast him to the very wolves who saved her life...and who are waiting for their chance to hunt him as prey.
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