 During the Prussian army s invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub s fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious saviour across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption including his father s death and his girlfriend s betrayal. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings.