Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Lavenza, living with Judge Frankenstein's family on the shores of Lake Geneva, goes in search of his son, a young scientist. Victor has not heard from him since he left to study at university. Elizabeth, being Victor's only close friend, is ready to support him in everything, because the girl's future depends on the younger Frankenstein. However, a monstrous discovery, from which the blood runs cold and the heart freezes in horror, confronts Elizabeth with a difficult choice...