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.