A mysterious circus arrives in a small provincial town that was cursed fifteen years ago by a local vampire—Count Mitterhaus. The townspeople killed him when their patience and fears reached their limit, and now they are dying from an unknown epidemic.
At first, the townspeople greet the circus’s arrival with suspicion, but they soon relax as everything seems to be going quite peacefully at first. However, they were wrong to let their guard down, because Emil, the leader of the traveling troupe, has come to carry out Mitterhaus’s will…