 A series of gory murders that leaves the male victims with slashed throats in filthy public toilets puts a homicide s forensic photographer to the ultimate test. A lover of Franz Schubert s classic song "Death and the Maiden", the photographer adores the young beautiful singer of that same song. When he finds clues that she might be the very serial killer the police is after, he offers himself as a victim to find out what is the mystery about the beautiful young woman.