A young woman and her nineteen-month-old daughter are last seen alive at a child's clothing store. A troubled young man's obsession with the currently popular vampire culture's larger-than-life charisma becomes the center of a police investigation. The current fascination with vampires makes some people identify with these supernatural figures who dominate their world, taking whatever they want for themselves. It is here that the killer's story opens a window on the fringe of this subculture, where people act out the more violent aspects of the vampire.