When a small town girl from the country moves to New York City with dreams of becoming an actress, she falls in love with a director and gets everything she ever wanted. That is until she cracks under the pressure and spirals out of control, murdering her roommate and fleeing as she spills blood across America, becoming the true crime story of the century!

Gaspard, a teenager from the suburbs of Lisbon, falls into the hands of the Ogre, a man who has made a pact with the Devil. The Ogre uses the boy to attract tourists, whom he transforms into animals and then kills. Gaspard escapes with a donkey and a dog that he has grown fond of, and in an enchanted manor, he meets the spirit of Queen D. Maria I.