Without effort, the shadowy creature sinks its claws into the belly of the defenseless victim. Then it proceeds to rip open the dying man's thigh and begins to drink.... For Garcin, on the run from the world and himself, the stories about the legendary Kori all at once become bloody reality when he comes across the hiding place of the picture-perfect vampiress in a strange place taken over by ruins. But she does not kill him. Instead, a deep friendship develops, which, however, is doomed to failure, because in secret a nameless evil stalks the two...

When Anita, the police commissioner's wife, is found dead and disfigured in the bathtub, Lieutenant Braque initiates an all-out manhunt to find the commissioner.