A deranged, manic painter believes that he is the reincarnation of Vincent van Gogh. When his beautiful wife dies unexpectedly, he suffers an emotional breakdown and insists that his necrophiliac butler, help remove her corpse from the cemetery and bring it back to his castle to help him retain his creativity. Until he meets a young woman named Sybille, who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife and lures her back to the castle with dire intentions.