The maggot people

After inheriting a house in the south of France, Michael meets and falls in love with a fugitive stranger named Ariel. He soon discovers that through contact with her, he is turning into "a maggot person"--A maggot-filled body topped by a still-functioning brain. Soon Michael finds himself embroiled in the machinations of an absurd, powerful hermetic Roman cult obsessed with eternal life and inextricably entwined with the Second Coming.