The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.

Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.