Long thought to have vanished, the relentless Countess Báthory is forced to abandon the calm of the shadows. In present-day Vienna, she joins forces with her subordinate Hermine and her nephew Rudi Bubi, a vegetarian vampire. In that city, on a journey of baroque exuberance and lurking fangs, they relentlessly search for the whereabouts of a book capable of extinguishing all evil in the universe — something that, truth be told, would not suit them at all. A film by Ulrike Ottinger, starring Isabelle Huppert.