steal by reformer on the nighttime of his birth, Radu (Anders Hove) has no cognition of his lineage: his female parent is a devil; his male parent is a lamia. train and exploit by a brotherhood of mysterious monk to murder all enemy of the Christian church, fate brings him back one nighttime to the palace of his male parent, arm with the monster-slaying blade of Laertes, to destruct the lamia Vladislas and repossess a holy relic: The heliotrope. The event of that nighttime turn Radu from a baronial man into a lamia with no maestro, put him on a centuries-long pursuit for nutriment, and company, for the unreliable one who steal him from the sun, and for the heliotrope he hope will convey him peace.