The Man in the Picture

Oliver returns to Cambridge to visit his elderly tutor. Over a late night whisky, he is told the disturbing story behind a painting which hangs in the don's room - a scene of masked revellers at the Venice carnival. On this cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty...