Stranded on a cold beach near the Baltic Sea after losing contact with his unit, the French Napolean officer, Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, has a chance encounter with an alluring dark-haired woman. After a series of strange incidents and a near-death experience, Duvalier finds himself on the doorstep of a cryptic aristocrat Baron Von Leppe's castle. Behind the thick stone walls of the reluctant lord's ominous castle, well-hidden secrets link the past to the present. From the dark depths of terror, will the truth gleam?