In early 20th-century France, the story unfolds around a disfigured and once respected surgeon, Dr. Orlof, consumed by a mission to restore his daughter's marred visage. With malevolence lurking beneath his once benign exterior, Dr. Orlof employs his hulking, blind, and obedient servant, Morpho, to kidnap young women for his experimental skin grafting procedures. Operating in the shadows of his gothic estate, the doctor's obsession with curing his daughter leads him on a grim and unyielding quest, heedless of the pain and terror he inflicts upon his victims.

As the surgeon's sinister deeds multiply, a dedicated police inspector and his ballerina fiancée become entangled in the macabre mystery. The inspector's fiancée, operating undercover, places herself in peril to unmask the source of the disappearances, venturing into a world of dread and corruption. Amidst a tense clairvoyant's revelation and the horrors concealed within Orlof's mansion, the couple's love and tenacity are pitted against the darkness of one man's demented ambitions.