In New Archangel, Alaska, French maidservant Ghislaine rescues a stranger who nearly burned to death in a mysterious fire on the ice. As she nurses Damon to health, Ghislaine learns he is not quite human, and the inheritor of a frightening legacy. Drawn to Damon's brooding, romantic nature, Ghislaine follows him to his native Germany, to the castle where his creator Victor Frankenstein once lived. However, Damon's past actions have earned him enemies who are determined to revenge themselves on him, and Ghislaine becomes the target of their violence.