Madison is a college graduate speaking to a film studies class about psychomanteum. She is very nervous. She agreed to do it as a favor to her old friend and ex-lover, Constance. Constance is the professor of the course. After the talk, Madison goes to Constance’s house. On the drive over, Constance tells Madison about a theatre, The Granfalloon, which had closed after its owner disappeared. The owner, Dr. Castle, was an odd fellow who received his Ph.D. in parapsychology from a mail-order course and was married to a very wealthy woman called Vera. There are rumors that Castle screened rare movies for certain clientele during the off-hours. After his disappearance, however, Vera closed the theatre abruptly, leaving everything as it was in case her husband returned. The building was going to be demolished soon. It is suspected that the rare films are somewhere in the theatre.

Upon arrival at Constance’s house, there is a van parked outside. They go inside. Constance never explains the plan to Madison—she simply expects her to go along with whatever is going on. Students from Constance’s film studies class arrive. They all pile into the van and go to the theatre. Constance meets someone at the gate who tells her to lock up when they are done. Constance explains that after the theatre was closed, nothing on the inside was touched. Thus, the special films may still be somewhere in the theatre. Using special tools, the group breaks into the Granfalloon in the hope to find these movies.

Madison was initially irritated with Constance as, during their relationship, Constance often assumed Madison would always go along with everything she desired. However, Madison becomes increasingly more excited as the plan proceeds. Inside auditorium one, they cut through the screen on the inside. Madison steps through and there is nothing, but a big chair bolted to the floor. In it sits a skeleton—presumably the skeleton of Mr. Castle. Madison is unable to look at it very loud as she is overcome with odd sensations. She sees a door in the corner that has been bricked over. She assumes this is how Mr. Castle entered and exited the area. Madison also gathers that his wife, Vera, had stumbled across her husband’s dead body, and closed the theatre, not knowing what to do. Mr. Castle likely sat in this chair staring at the backside of the screen until he died. The others see it. They all leave in silence.

At the hotel, Madison dreams of sitting in the chamber where they found Mr. Castle watching the films from the wrong side. The films and figures appear sinister from this direction. They look like gaping black spots, like Castle’s corpse, burned into the screen.

At the airport, Madison cannot look at the televisions. Every time she does, she sees the black empty sockets and cannot help from wondering if that’s what flows out of people when they look at a screen.