A young girl, Elizabeth, escaping from his tyrannical aunt Hilda, in the forest meets a medical student Charles. But soon Elizabeth again in the family estate, where aunt Hilda let her blood, "to cast out demons from her body". Her twin brother Emil begging their father, Baron Zorn, not to hurt her. In the manor sent Dr. Falkenberg to remove the hereditary curse hanging over come Zornow. With him travels Carl. The vehicle breaks down on the road, and every doctor goes his own way. Meanwhile, the night near a village in the forest are committed murder. All victims are strangled and sprinkled with rose petals...