Quasimodo, the hunch backed bell ringer at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, had a problem. The rope he had to pull to ring the bells broke one day leaving him wondering how he was going to perform his duty. Knowing the bells had to ring, in a moment of self sacrifice, Quasimodo climbed to the belfry and at the moment the bells were to strike, he runs headlong across the belfry smashing his face into the side of the bell and the sound of the great cathedral's bell sounds over the city. Dazed, he runs back and flings himself in to the bell over and over again. Quasimodo, now dizzy and bloody, makes one more run at the bell but misses and plunges over the side of the belfry, falling to his death. A horrified crowd gathers around his broken and twisted body, murmuring and pointing. One shaken onlooker asks, "Who is that poor, wretched man?" Someone else answers, "I don't know, but his face does ring a bell."