It all began in 1882, when Antoinette Giry took her small child, Meg, to a carnival. There, to her horror, she saw a caged, filthy, manacled creature whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. Madame Giry freed him, cured his wounds, and let him find a dwelling place in the seven floors below ground levels of the labyrinthine opera house. When the Phantom of the Opera, his hideous visage masking a brilliant mind, tries to lure the object of his adoration to his underground domain, it must end in tragedy. But did it end? What happened to the Phantom and Christine?